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Ferrara MEIS Museum Wheelchair Accessible Tours

The National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah ( MEIS ) narrates the 2,000 year old Jewish experience in Italy, making known their life, thought and fundamental contributions to the history and culture of the country, with special attention to the period of persecution and Holocaust.

Ferrara MEIS Museum wheelchair accessible tours, is a place open to all, a laboratory of ideas and reflections that tells the meaning of minority, stimulates the debate on Judaism, its future in  Italy and the value of dialogue between cultures.

It includes: reception to the public, exhibition areas, MEIShop, library, archive and documentation and cataloging centre, restaurant, auditorium, educational laboratories and offices.

Touring Ferrara

Present in the city since the XII century, the Jews have established an inextricable relationship with Ferrara.

The welcoming policy of the House of Este and, in particular of the dukes Ercole I and Ercole II, was crucial, the culmination of which are the edicts inviting Spanish and Portuguese Jews, expelled from their lands in 1492, to settle in the city .

The passage of the city to the State of the Church leads to the establishment of the ghetto in 1627 and to a contraction of the local community which will once again be the protagonist of the social and economic life of Ferrara after 1859, with the obtaining of equal rights.

The racial laws and the Nazi-fascist persecution have obscured the serenity of daily life, but the local community has been able to resist the impact of time and difficulties and after more than a thousand years it is still active.

Booking & Travel

Ferrara MEIS Museum wheelchair accessible tours disabled excursions.

Unmissable visit at it with our Bologna Accessible Tours.

Specifically tailored to wheelchair users, reduced mobility persons and disabled with an adapted van.