Please join us for the closing of the exhibition Through the Eyes of Rachel Marker | A Literary Installation by Moira Roth. For over ten years, writer and art historian Moira Roth has been creating a fragmented narrative about a fictional Czech Jew, Rachel Marker, a witness to 20th-century European history. Now for the first time, […]
Designed for students during UC Berkeley Welcome Week, this behind-the-scenes tour will reveal the many unique resources and events that are available for teaching, study, and personal enrichment. Visitors may even get to see a Lost Ark or two.
Special exhibition tours with Magnes Director Alla Efimova and Curator Francesco Spagnolo.
The exhibition Global India: Kerala, Israel, Berkeley brought to light the extensive holdings from Kerala, South India, collected by The Magnes since the 1960s, and their relationship with the development of South Indian studies at UC Berkeley, since the pioneering work of David G. Mandelbaum and Walter J. Fischel. A multidisciplinary panel of scholars from UC Berkeley and Stanford, including […]
The Magnes Director Alla Efimova , The Bancroft Library Director Elaine Tennant and The Friends of The Magnes cordially invite you to the opening reception for the exhibition Saved by The Bay The Intellectual Migration from Fascist Europe to UC Berkeley based on a student research project that highlights the story of over seventy scholars […]
Join a panel of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and The Magnes Curator Francesco Spagnolo in a public discussion about the spring exhibition, Saved By The Bay: The Intellectual Migration from Fascist Europe to UC Berkeley. The panel will explore the inter-generational research process that made it possible and the role of refugee scholars in the […]
Join Magnes staff for a guided tour of current exhibitions. Lunchtime Tours are offered on the first Thursday of each month through May.
In addition to offering Cal Day exhibition tours, The Magnes in downtown Berkeley joins museums nationwide for Slow Art Day, a celebration of art that encourages people to look at art slowly and experience it in a new way. For more information on Cal Day, visit calday.berkeley.edu. Art viewing: 11am-1pm Lunch: 1pm-2pm at Saturn Cafe
Join Magnes staff for a guided tour of current exhibitions. Lunchtime Tours are offered on the first Thursday of each month through May.
Join Magnes staff for a guided tour of current exhibitions. Lunchtime Tours are offered on the first Thursday of each month through May.
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life The Bancroft Library with the Center for Jewish Studies and the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies cordially invite you to an opening reception for Gourmet Ghettos Modern Food Rituals A new exhibition exploring eating, identity and activism in Jewish life and beyond Wednesday, September […]
In how many ways can a postcard be Jewish? According to Anna Bella Korbatov and Zoe Lewin, a dynamic team of Undergraduate Research Apprentices working at the Magnes, postcards can be convey a Jewish message in a variety of ways. They can appeal to the sender's or receiver's nostalgia through depictions of famous European synagogues […]
