Remembering is an activity, it can take effort and work. The Active Museum Spiegelgasse sees itself as a place of living remembrance work, which explains the name of the museum, which is located in one of the oldest Jewish residential buildings in Wiesbaden. People, things and events are forgotten if there is no one to actively preserve their memory. The museum team prevents this from happening to the city's Jewish history. Although the museum does not have its own collection, it is extremely active when it comes to finding partners and contemporary witnesses with whom to organize lectures, workshops and exhibitions. Around four different exhibitions a year take place here in the half-timbered house dating back to 1735.

The museum's commitment can also be experienced very concretely in Wiesbaden's town hall. The museum team has created a moving permanent exhibition in a memorial room for the victims of the Nazi era. In addition to documents, photographs and eyewitness accounts, there are also changing "memorial sheets" on display, each of which presents a person or family from the circle of Shoa victims. These are fates that you remember, that touch you and that remain in your memory. And the museum is always remembering anew - actively fighting against forgetting.

(Museum is still closed)

Address:

Spiegelgasse 9
65183 Wiesbaden