Montreal Jewish Museum

The Museum of Jewish Montreal (MJM), known in French as Musée du Montréal juif, is a not-for-profit museum founded in 2010 to collect, map, and present the history and experiences of Montreal’s Jewish community. It began as an online project mapping Jewish history and has since grown to include original digital exhibits, oral histories, and mobile/online walking tours documenting Jewish life in the city.

In 2016 the Museum opened its first physical home in the heart of the Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood, later operating out of the historic H. Fisher & Sons clothing store on Saint-Laurent Boulevard. Today it functions as a vibrant cultural space that goes beyond a traditional museum model, hosting contemporary art exhibitions, pop-up shows, lectures, panel discussions, and community events.

MJM is especially known for its popular guided walking and food tours, which trace the Jewish history of the Plateau-Mont-Royal and Mile End neighbourhoods and highlight Jewish culinary traditions and the legacy of the garment industry. Through its varied programming, the Museum aims to help visitors connect with Montreal’s Jewish identity, culture, and art, and to ensure the legacy of Jewish life in the city continues to be shared with new generations.