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The entrance ticket is valid for the entire exhibition route, for the Garden of Questions, for the multimedia show “Through the Eyes of Italian Jews” and for the exhibition “1938: Humanity Denied”.

We have many visitors and we want to create a good experience where there is room for all our guests. Therefore, all groups must book their visit in advance.

The museum was born in the former prisons of via Piangipane and a short distance from the Jewish ghetto, with the aim of transforming places of isolation and confinement into spaces open to culture and dialogue.

MEIS pays special attention to teaching both adults and children, especially schools, for which it signed a memorandum of understanding in 2017 with the Ministry of Education, University and Research that provides for the organization of conferences, seminars and trips for upper classes.

The Garden of questions, with a playful and interactive approach, brings the public closer to Jewish culture through its smells and tastes, satisfies rather widespread curiosities and makes you reflect on the differences, but also on the many analogies, with other traditions. Admission is free and is accessible during the museum’s opening hours.

The MEIS Library collects and preserves national and foreign editorial production on the history of the Jews in Italy. The books can be consulted at the headquarters in Via Piangipane 81, after having requested them from the staff. You can consult the catalog on Bibliofe, specifying Biblioteca MEIS.

It is forbidden to bring food and drinks into the exhibition halls. There is a food and drink vending machine inside the museum. Soon the building will have a restaurant and a cafeteria open to the public.

The MEIS has designed a path for visually impaired people that will be progressively implemented: through the use of tactile cards and thanks to the training of guides it is possible to visit part of the permanent path.

The cloakroom is free and backpacks, suitcases and bags larger than 40x35x15 cm must be stored there, as well as medium/large umbrellas and those with a pointed tip, walking sticks – except those used to aid walking, photographic tripods, video cameras, signs and labels of any kind.

Smoking is prohibited throughout the museum complex. The ban also includes electronic cigarettes.

The closest public parking to the museum is named “ex-MOF” and it is located in via Darsena 138, just a 7-minute walk from the museum.

Animals are not allowed in the entire building, with the exception of guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, certified as providing therapeutic care (pet therapy) with certificates issued by doctors from public health facilities.