This reconstructed lane shows visitors a section of a typical alley in the old Jewish quarter in Baghdad at the beginning of the 20th...

Curator: Orly Baher Levy Food and its preparation have always played a key and important role in the lives of human beings. Apart from...

Curator: Idit Sharoni Oded Halahmy was born in Baghdad and raised in Israel. It was in his native Baghdad where Halahmy, at an early age,...

Nehardea No. 20, 2017

Nehardea No. 14, 2003

Nehardea No. 7, March 1995

Nehardea No. 2, Autumn 1982

Nehardea No. 1, Summer 1981

Going on now Curator: Dr. Yehudit Erenberg This exhibition features a selection of works by non-Jewish Iraqi artists. The paintings were...

Orly Baher Levy Museum Curator Blog No. 2 Around three weeks ago, and with great joy and delight, we launched the special art project...

Orly Baher Levy Museum Curator (Blog No. 1) On March 9, 1950, the Waiver of Citizenship Law (Tasqit) was promulgated in the official...

The exhibition features a portrait of a Jewish man in Iraq dressed in modern Western attire, a trend that began to take root in the 1930's.

An early 20th century outfit that belonged to Khatun Barukh Shua, a member of an affluent family from Baghdad. This item is an example of th

This commemorative exhibition, to mark seventy years since Israel’s establishment, is the culmination of an educational, cultural and artist

Nessim Zalayet was born in Baghdad in 1923. Zalayet, who started out in Iraq as a figurative artist who specialized in painting portraits, m

At the heart of the museum, the courtyard of a traditional Jewish home in Baghdad has been recreated. This courtyard, built at the...

The Shnashil, a small sitting room that protruded from the house, was located on the top floor of the traditional Jewish home. Under the...

At the end of the 18th century, communities of Babylonian Jewry began to spread to the Diaspora, at first the Far East and later in...

The summer living room at the museum is open to the replica of the courtyard on the ground floor. The decorative flooring is made of...

The exhibition presents the wedding customs of the Jews of Iraq, in the late 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. In...