Jüdisches Museum Franken

What Jüdisches Museum Franken does

The Jüdisches Museum Franken is a publicly funded Jewish history museum operating three physical locations in Fürth, Schnaittach, and Schwabach in the Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany, plus a Krautheimer Krippe dependance in Fürth. It is operated by the Trägerverein Jüdisches Museum Franken in Fürth, Schnaittach und Schwabach e.V., a registered nonprofit association founded in 1990, with the Förderverein (founded 1988) providing additional membership and donor support. The museum's core products are three permanent exhibitions — Dauerausstellung Fürth (history of Jewish life in Franconia housed in a 1702 Jewish residential building with Mikwe and Sukkah), Dauerausstellung Schnaittach (rural Jewish life in a 1570 synagogue complex), and Dauerausstellung Schwabach (the Moses Löw Koppel residence with a Baroque-frescoed Sukkah) — supplemented by rotating temporary exhibitions (e.g., 'Home Front', '100 Synagogen in Deutschland'), a ~12,000-item specialist library (Krautheimer Studienbibliothek), a museum garden (Alfred Heilbronn Museumsgarten), a café (Mary S. Rosenberg Café), and a bookshop (Jakob Wassermann Buchhandlung). Digital offerings include a Matterport-powered 3D virtual tour, VR experiences, and the Synagogengassen mobile app.

Name

Jüdisches Museum Franken

Legal name

Trägerverein Jüdisches Museum Franken in Fürth, Schnaittach und Schwabach e.V.

Website

https://juedisches-museum.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Jüdisches Museum Franken is a publicly funded, three-location Jewish history museum in Franconia, Germany, serving the general public, school groups, researchers, and the Jewish community through permanent and temporary exhibitions, a 12,000-item specialist library, guided tours, and educational programs against antisemitism.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Heritage Museum

NAICS

Museums (712110), Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712), Libraries and Archives (51921)

akta.pro primary industry

History Museums (THAJADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Museums & Heritage Sites (History, Science, Specialty) (BPAGAHAA), Museum & Landmark Guided Tours (Skip-the-line/Docent-led) (THAJAAAC)

Keywords

• Jewish history museum
• Cultural heritage preservation
• Museum educational programs
• Permanent exhibitions
• Guided museum tours

Headquarters

HQ city

Fürth

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Institutional Public Funding: The museum is institutionally funded by the Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Unterricht und Kultus (Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture). It is operated by the Trägerverein Jüdisches Museum Franken e.V., whose members include the Bezirk Mittelfranken, Stadt Fürth, Landkreis Nürnberger Land, Marktgemeinde Schnaittach, and Stadt Schwabach.
2. Admission Tickets: Ticket revenue from individual and group visits to permanent and temporary exhibitions at all three locations (Fürth, Schnaittach, Schwabach). Prices range from €3 (reduced, single exhibition) to €8 (regular, combined exhibition). Family tickets, school group rates, and free entry for children up to 13 years are available.
3. Mary S. Rosenberg Café: The museum operates a café on-site in Fürth, serving beverages and the Fürther Zitronentorte (lemon cake). Revenue from café sales contributes to museum operations.
4. Jakob Wassermann Buchhandlung & Museum Shop: The museum houses a bookshop operated in cooperation with Korn & Berg / Buchhandlung Edelmann, selling books on Jewish history and culture, fiction, cookbooks, children's literature, graphic novels, and museum merchandise including Judaica, Chanukkah menorahs, and souvenirs.
5. Guided Tours and Workshops: Revenue from booked guided tours (museum, city, and cemetery tours), workshops, and educational programs for schools. Group tour fees range from €65–80 per group plus entry, with school classes at €3 per student.
6. Förderverein Membership and Donations: The Förderverein Jüdisches Museum Franken e.V. (founded 1988) collects membership dues (€20/year individuals, €30/partners, from €50/year companies) and donations to support exhibitions, events, library acquisitions, and museum construction projects.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Jüdisches Museum Franken operates three museum sites in Fürth, Schnaittach, and Schwabach, displaying permanent and temporary exhibitions on Jewish history and rural Jewish culture in Franconia. It offers guided group tours, school programs, specialist library services (Krautheimer Studienbibliothek), police antisemitism training, a bookshop (Jakob Wassermann Buchhandlung), and a café (Mary S. Rosenberg Café). The museum also provides a 3D virtual tour of the historic Fürther Schulhof and the Synagogengassen-App mobile guide.

Product overview

Jüdisches Museum Franken is a three-location Jewish history museum in Fürth, Schnaittach, and Schwabach, operated by the Trägerverein Jüdisches Museum Franken e.V. The museum portfolio comprises core permanent exhibitions at each location—the Dauerausstellung Fürth (history of Jewish life in Franconia in a former printing family residence with Mikwe and Sukkah), Dauerausstellung Schnaittach (rural Jewish life in a 1570 synagogue complex), and Dauerausstellung Schwabach (Moses Löw Koppel residence with historic Sukkah and wall paintings)—alongside the Krautheimer Krippe dependance documenting the Krautheimer family philanthropy. Supporting the exhibitions are the Krautheimer Studienbibliothek (12,000-volume specialist library), an Adolph S. Ochs Reading Lounge, and rotating Wechselausstellungen (temporary exhibitions) including 'Home Front' and '100 Synagogen in Deutschland.' Visitor amenities include the Mary S. Rosenberg Café and Alfred Heilbronn Museumsgarten, while the Jakob Wassermann Buchhandlung & Museumsshop provides literature and Judaica products. Digital offerings include Matterport-powered 3D virtual tours, VR museum experiences, and the Synagogengassen app. Educational programming encompasses group tours, school programs, and antisemitism awareness workshops. The museum also coordinates family reunions for descendants of Franconian Jewish families and maintains a collection database.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Mary S. Rosenberg Café: Café located in the museum's inner courtyard, named after the Fürth bookseller Mary S. Rosenberg (1900-1992)
• Alfred Heilbronn Museumsgarten
• Jakob Wassermann Buchhandlung & Museumsshop
• Krautheimer Studienbibliothek & Adolph S. Ochs Lounge
• Synagogengassen-App
• Krautheimer Krippe

Products and services

• Permanent Exhibition Fürth (Dauerausstellung Fürth) The main permanent exhibition located in the historic school building at Königstraße 85 in Fürth, presenting Jewish history and culture in Franconia using objects and media stations. Open Tuesday to Sunday, it forms the largest of the museum's three exhibition sites and is the museum's flagship offering.
• Permanent Exhibition Schnaittach (Dauerausstellung Schnaittach) Permanent exhibition located in the Museum im Alten Rathaus at Hauptstraße 7 in Schnaittach, focused on Jewish life in rural Franconian communities. Open on Sundays, this is one of two branch sites of the museum.

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

20 partnerships are on record, tiered significant, core and minor.

• Bayerische Bereitschaftspolizei (Bavarian Police)significantStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 August 2023A unique educational project in Bavaria in which the Jüdisches Museum Franken trained police officers of the Bavarian Bereitschaftspolizei in Jewish history and culture as part of antisemitism education and prevention efforts.
• Marktgemeinde Schnaittach (municipality)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-owner and partner of the Trägerverein (operating association) that runs the museum. The Schnaittach museum is located in a municipal building shared with the Heimatmuseum Schnaittach, which provides co-programming and shared exhibitions.
• Bezirk Mittelfranken (Middle Franconia district)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of the Trägerverein operating association. Bezirk Mittelfranken is a core institutional partner providing governance and support for the museum network.
• Stadt Fürth (city of Fürth)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of the Trägerverein operating association. The city of Fürth owns and supports the main museum building and provides core institutional backing.
• Landkreis Nürnberger LandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of the Trägerverein operating association, providing regional institutional support for the museum network.
• Stadt Schwabach (city of Schwabach)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of the Trägerverein operating association, supporting the Schwabach museum location.
• MPZ Bayern (Medienpädagogisches Zentrum Bayern)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMarkus Sternecker is a partially delegated teacher (Teilabgeordneter Lehrer) for Education & Outreach at the museum, representing MPZ Bayern. The MPZ supports the museum's educational mission and teacher training programs.
• Institut für Fremdsprachen und Auslandskunde (IFA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation partner for the museum's 'Leichte Sprache' (Easy Language) initiative, making museum content accessible to people with learning difficulties.
• Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Fürth (Jewish Community Fürth)significantStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation on cemetery tours (Alter Jüdischer Friedhof Fürth) and joint programming related to Jewish community life and remembrance.
• Landesverband der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinden in Bayern (State Association of Jewish Communities in Bavaria)significantStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in cemetery tours and Jewish heritage programming. Cooperates on tours of Jewish cemeteries in Schnaittach and Fürth.
• Heimatmuseum SchnaittachminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-located in the same historic building as the Schnaittach museum. Joint exhibition programming and shared facilities.
• Heimatverein Schnaittach 1892 e.V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation partner for the 'Auf Landpartie' (history hike) program combining museum visits in Schnaittach with tours of Festung Rothenberg.
• Helene-Lange-Gymnasium FürthsignificantStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing cooperation with student projects including the P-Seminar Audiowalk 'Jüdisches Leben in Fürth' and the class 11c Graphic Novel project 'Erinnerungslinien'. Museum provides educational support and exhibition space for student work.
• Jugendmedienzentrum ConnectminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the student project 'Audiowalk Jüdisches Leben in Fürth' alongside the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium and the museum.
• Germanisches Nationalmuseum NürnbergminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Claudia Selheim, Head of Collections for Volkskunde, Spielzeug und Judaica at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, serves on the museum's Scientific Advisory Board (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat).
• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProf. Dr. Charlotte Bühl-Gramer (Chair of History Didactics) and Prof. Dr. Georg Seiderer (Chair of Modern Bavarian and Franconian Regional History and Ethnology) serve on the museum's Scientific Advisory Board.
• Association of European Jewish Museums (AEJM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Head of the Curatorial Education Program of AEJM, serves on the museum's Scientific Advisory Board. AEJM members receive free museum entry.
• Jüdisches Museum Berlin (Jewish Museum Berlin)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCilly Kugelmann, former Program Director and Deputy Director of the Jüdisches Museum Berlin, serves on the museum's Scientific Advisory Board.
• Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Unterricht und KultuscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides institutional funding to the museum as its primary government funder. The ministry oversees educational and cultural policy in Bavaria.
• Netzwerk Jüdisches FrankensignificantStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe museum is the lead coordinator of the 'Netzwerk Jüdisches Franken' network, which promotes museums and synagogue memorial sites in Franconia, facilitates information exchange, and organizes conferences and training for museums and local historians.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

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Direct peers

• NS-Dokumentationszentrum München: Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism is a Bavarian memorial/education site focused on Nazi history, antisemitism, and civic education. Comparable in mission, Bavarian geography, and educational programming targeting schools and the public.
• Yad Vashem: Yad Vashem is the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel, the global benchmark for Holocaust education and memorial institutions. Comparable in educational mission and archival function, though at vastly larger scale.
• Jüdisches Museum München: Jewish Museum Munich is a regional Jewish history museum with permanent and temporary exhibitions, educational programs, and event programming — directly comparable in mission, structure, and audience as a Bavarian/German regional Jewish museum.
• Anne Frank Haus: Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is a Holocaust memorial and museum focused on Jewish history and antisemitism education. Comparable in mission around Holocaust education, school programs, and youth engagement.
• Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt: Jewish Museum Frankfurt operates as a regional Jewish history museum with permanent exhibitions, educational programs, and library holdings. Closely comparable in scope, visitor profile, and educational mission to Jüdisches Museum Franken.

Broad incumbents

• Jüdisches Museum Berlin: Germany's flagship Jewish museum with national reach and a much larger permanent collection. Comparable as the most prominent Jewish-heritage institution in Germany, though it operates at an entirely different scale and serves a global audience.
• Deutsches Historisches Museum: German Historical Museum in Berlin is a national history museum covering German history including Jewish history. Comparable as a German history museum with educational programming, but operates at national scale.
• Germanisches Nationalmuseum: Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg is a major cultural-history museum that holds Judaica collections. Directly connected via advisory board representation and shares Franconian cultural-heritage scope.

Regional players

• Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände Nürnberg: Documentation Center at the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg is a nearby Bavarian documentation center with permanent exhibition, educational programs, and antisemitism awareness mission. Comparable as a regional German memorial/educational site focused on confronting Nazi history.
• Stadtmuseum Fürth: Stadtmuseum Fürth is the local municipal museum in the same city as the JMF main location. Comparable as a small Bavarian municipal museum offering exhibitions and educational programming to local audiences.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

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