Exhibition Detail: Visions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America

Visions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America

Ongoing

ADMISSION

$10 General
$7 Seniors and Full-Time Students
$5 Children 2–12
Free to Members and Children under 2
Free to all on Thursdays

Included with Museum admission (tickets at the door)

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Featuring changing displays of works from the Skirball’s permanent collection, this exhibition traces the history, accomplishments, and values of the Jewish people over 4,000 years.

Travel through the many lands where Jews have lived and carried on a rich tradition and discover how the visions of our ancestors helped shape our values today. The Visions and Values galleries explore themes including Beginnings, Journeys, Holidays, Lifecycle, Synagogue, Passage to America, Nation of Immigrants, the Holocaust, Israel, and Personal Journeys, among others.

Extended through August 11 due to popular demand: Visions and Values' special exhibit “Lincoln Spotlight,” featuring objects on loan from the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois. Among the treasures is an extremely rare letter written in Lincoln’s own hand days before his tragic assassination in which he quotes his Second Inaugural Address (“With malice toward none, with charity for all”).

Now on Skirblog: Programs Coordinator Kasia Gondek contemplates how Lincoln and Charles Darwin share a birthday.

Now on Skirblog: Head of Exhibition Design and Production Tom Schirtz reflects on Abraham Lincoln after seeing Lincoln's personal portfolio, now on display in "Lincoln Spotlight."