The Czech Ministry of Culture and Education has taken over the Jewish Museum in Prague which had been previously under the authority of that city’s Municipal Council, it was reported here today from Prague.
In turning over the operation of the museum to the Ministry, the Municipality reported that 327,000 persons had visited the exhibits last year. The report said that two-thirds of the visitors were tourists from abroad–East and West Germany, France, Italy, the United States, Canada, Sweden and other countries.
The museum, which contains a large collection of relies and documents relating to Jewish life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance era, is currently preparing to exhibit in London paintings and drawings by Jewish artists in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. The museum also plans to exhibit in the United States a collection of drawings made by children in wartime Theresienstadt, where the Nazis deported Jews from Germany. The latter exhibit was already shown in a number of countries, including Israel.
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