Special Exhibition
Blacklisted: An American Story
Opens Friday, March 6, 2026
Special
Hollywood celebrities arrive in Washington: Marsha Hunt, David Hopkins, Richard Conte, Ralph Alswang, June Havoc, John Huston, Paul Henreid, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Joseph Sistrom, Evelyn Keyes, Danny Kaye, Jane Wyatt, Geraldine Brooks and Ira Gershwin, 1947. Courtesy of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Detail of Action Comics #1, featuring Superman, 1938. Written by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Art by Joe Shuster. TM & Copyright DC Comics.
Special Exhibition
JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience
Through March 23, 2025
Participants on the National Mall at the National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, & Bi Equal Rights & Liberation, April 1993. Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Mitch Weissner.
Special Exhibition
LGBTJews in the Federal City
On view through Sunday, January 4, 2026
Snack at Manny’s Delicatessen, Chicago, IL, 2010. Image Professionals GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo
Special Exhibition
“I’ll Have What She’s Having”: The Jewish Deli
Extended by popular demand through Sunday, September 1
Rolodex belonging to Sheldon Cohen in the 1990s. Cohen was IRS Commissioner in President Lyndon Johnson’s administration and worked later as an attorney at private firms in Washington, DC.
Capital Jewish Museum Collection. Gift of Laura Cohen Apelbaum and Family.
Special Exhibition
If It’s Jewish, We Have It: Selections from the Collections
A favorite object in our collection is the neon sign reading “If It’s Jewish We Have It,” currently on display…. (Read more)
Notorious RBG book cover illustration by Adam Johnson. Courtesy of HarperCollins. Photographs: Crown © by Hurst Photo/Shutterstock
Special Exhibition
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Extended by popular demand through Dec 3
Presented by PNC