ZIDOVSKE MUZEUM V PRAZE

Their core work

The Jewish Museum in Prague is one of the world's most significant Jewish cultural heritage institutions, holding extensive collections of Judaica, historical documents, and archival materials documenting Jewish life and the Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia. Their core value in EU research lies in providing access to irreplaceable primary source collections — personal testimonies, community records, and Holocaust documentation from Central Europe — that exist nowhere else in comparable depth. In both EHRI projects, they function as an archival node: contributing their physical and digitized holdings to a pan-European research infrastructure that connects Holocaust-related archives across the continent. They bridge traditional museum practice with digital humanities, making unique historical materials findable and usable by researchers across Europe.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects are successive phases of the same infrastructure — EHRI (2015–2019) and EHRI-3 (2020–2025) — so the museum shows continuity rather than a pivot. No keyword shift is detectable from the available data, which is itself informative: this is an organization with a single, deep specialization that deepened over time rather than diversifying. The progression from EHRI to EHRI-3 suggests the museum has moved from building shared infrastructure to consolidating and extending it, with a smaller funding share in the later phase indicating a more defined, embedded role within a mature network.

The museum is on a clear path of long-term embeddedness in the EHRI research infrastructure, making them a stable and predictable partner for any future project touching Holocaust documentation, Jewish heritage digitization, or Central European memory institutions.

How they like to work

The Jewish Museum in Prague has never led an H2020 project — it participates as a specialist contributor, bringing archival assets rather than coordinating research activity. It operates within large, geographically distributed consortia (25 partners across 18 countries), which reflects the nature of EHRI as a continent-wide network of memory institutions. Working with them means engaging a well-established consortium partner with clear, bounded expertise rather than a flexible generalist partner.

25 unique consortium partners across 18 countries, concentrated in Europe, reflecting the pan-European scope of the EHRI Holocaust research network. Their partners are predominantly archives, universities, and memory institutions — a tightly defined professional community rather than a cross-sector network.

What sets them apart

The Jewish Museum in Prague holds one of the largest and most historically significant collections of Judaica and Holocaust documentation in the world, with particular depth on Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia — materials that are simply not replicated elsewhere in Europe. For any consortium building around Holocaust research, Jewish heritage, or Central European historical memory, they are not interchangeable with another archive: they bring a specific, geographically anchored collection that defines their value. Their decade-long participation in EHRI also means they carry institutional knowledge of how pan-European archive networks are built and governed.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EHRI
  The founding phase of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (2015–2019), carrying the largest share of the museum's EC funding (EUR 260,876) and establishing their role as a core archival node in a 25-partner European network.
• EHRI-3
  The 2020–2025 continuation of EHRI, confirming the museum's sustained, long-term commitment to the infrastructure — rare in H2020 where most organizations do not span two full consecutive phases of the same project.