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The Jewish Museum of Belgium offers a wide range of educational and fun activities. They are designed to suit all audiences: students of all ages and levels, as well as extracurricular groups, associations, and adults. All our activities are tailor-made and available in French, Dutch, and English. Discovering other cultures, developing critical thinking, and deconstructing stereotypes are all part of the program!

These activities are all the more meaningful in a multicultural society. They aim to build a more inclusive society together, where everyone has their place. To achieve this, we draw on a wide range of skills, expertise, and knowledge defined for students in terms of awareness and education.

Feel free to browse our flyer to discover all our activities: “Let’s Meet a Jew” workshops, our workshops related to temporary exhibitions, not to mention a tour of the Great Synagogue or a meeting with a Holocaust survivor.

This building, built in 1878, bears witness to the desire for integration of the Jewish community in this city. An opportunity to discover the architectural and religious heritage of Brussels.

Want to discover Judaism? We propose three workshops on Jewish cultures aimed at all audiences, regardless of their origin, faiths and beliefs. Our ambition is to build bridges across people, showing the commonalities between cultures and their enriching differences. The Jewish Museum of Belgium is a place where to meet and dialogue and where all questions can be asked, without taboo.

The workshops have been designed in partnership with the CEJI (Jewish Contribution for an Inclusive Europe)

The ABC of Judaïsm (8 to 99 yo)

What rites and practices are part of the life of a Jewish family? Emphasis will be placed on what makes us alike from a social, cultural and religious standpoint. During this workshop, participants get an insight on Jewish rites.

Myths & Stereotypes (12 to 99 yo)

Thanks to an interactive visit (of part) of the museum, students become familiar with another culture. They discuss similarities and differences with their own culture. During this workshop, thanks to visual aids, and based on Jewish experiences, they become aware of cultural myths and stereotypes. They discover how stereotypes work, how propaganda can use them and what dangers this entails.

Rites of passage from here and elsewhere (8 to 99 yo)

What is a rite of passage? Why do we celebrate birth? Why do we commemorate death? What are the differences and similarities between religions and cultures? This workshop encourages critical thinking and questioning, as well as the discovery of other cultures.

By meeting someone who lived through and survived the Shoah, young people make the link between their history classes and the real-life experience of the witness. Life stories bring to life events that, for younger generations, seem remote.

Through personal stories, which they can present themselves, students become familiar with the history of the 20th convoy to Auschwitz and the resistance that rose up against it.

Through the eyes of refugees, a walk in the Marolles in search of Jewish migration from the beginning of the 20th century until the post-war period. Our tools consist of photos, maps and historical documents on tablets. The history of Europe and its migrations, condensed in a district of Brussels!

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