Capital Jewish Museum
Dig deep into local Jewish history, discover Jewish perspectives on social justice issues facing the world today, and think about your own identity and values.
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Gridded graphics span 100 DC Jews through history systematically interspersed with images, artifacts, quotes and captions. The caption design displays as many different jobs, genders, politics and races evenly throughout the wall to immediately show the breadth of what a DC Jew could look like. Foam cubes re-contextualize the wall grid to include three descriptive words for the visitor to pick up and connect with, tangibly and conceptually, adding dimensionality to these famous and non-famous figures alike.
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Categorized and color coded DC, Maryland and Virginia locations show the Jewish community across where they live, eat, play, work, learn and worship. This color coded system categorizes photographs, large artifact cases, quotes and questions within a small corner space to bring to life the intersectionality of the DC Jewish community across state delineations of the DMV (DC, Maryland and Virginia).
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Six manually interactive pods deep dive into different contemporary issues and prompt the visitor to engage with these difficult issues by presenting both sides to the issues. With DC being the Nation's Capital, politics is interwoven into the history.
"We’re telling the story in this museum in a Jewish way, so that it’s not just that we might not agree, but actually the disagreement is important and preserving those disagreements is important."
—Sarah Leavitt, Museum Curator
—Sarah Leavitt, Museum Curator
Graphic Designer, from concept to completion in eight months. Designed under Design Director Lonny Schwartz in collaboration with Graphic Designer Peter Byer.
Photography courtesy of the Capital Jewish Museum.
