Contemporary Jewish Museum

Contemporary Jewish Museum 
736 Mission St 
San Francisco –  CA –  94103 
 Phone:  (415) 655-7800 
Union Square, SoMa, Financial District 
 
AboutSince its founding in 1984, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) has distinguished itself as a welcoming place where visitors can connect with one another through dialogue and …Learn more about Contemporary Jewish Museum, Opens a popupSpecialtiesAboutSince its founding in 1984, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) has distinguished itself as a welcoming place where visitors can connect with one another through dialogue and shared experiences with the arts.Ever changing, the CJM is a non-collecting institution that partners with national and international cultural institutions to present exhibitions that are both timely and relevant and represent the highest level of artistic achievement and scholarship.Mission StatementThe CJM makes the diversity of the Jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first century audience. We accomplish this through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.The Museum’s Daniel Libeskind-designed facility enables and inspires its mission. Dynamic and welcoming, it’s a place to experience art, music, film, literature, debate, and–most importantly–people.HistoryEstablished in 1984.In 1994, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency invited the Contemporary Jewish Museum to develop the historic Jessie Street Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) Power Substation, a 1907 landmark designed by architect Willis Polk.The CJM selected architect Daniel Libeskind in 1998 to design its new home, an adaptive reuse of Polk’s substation. In the design for the Contemporary Jewish Museum, his first commissioned project in North America, Libeskind responded to the Museum’s mission to be a lively center that fosters community among people of diverse backgrounds through shared experiences with the arts by focusing on the celebratory nature of the Jewish experience.Contemporary Jewish Museum also recommends