• Address:

    Široká Street, 110 00 Prague 1

  • Client:

    Jewish Museum in Prag

  • Description of the work:

    Research and restoration work

  • Realization:

    since 1993, 2000–2003, 2008, 2016

The subject of the work was the carrying out of a professional survey of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague and restoration work. The cemetery, founded at the beginning of the 15th century with approximately 12 thousand tombstones, is one of the oldest preserved Jewish cemeteries in Europe.

The Old Jewish Cemetery is a valuable art-historical monument and a document of the development of Jewish tombstone sculpture, as burials took place here for almost 350 years, until 1787. Therefore, the work carried out, spread over a number of years, was focused on professional surveys and restoration treatments of the most valuable tombstones. The Old Jewish Cemetery is also an important cultural-historical monument, as the inscriptions on the tombstones are an important source for the history of the Jewish community and its prominent personalities who are buried here.

The knowledge gained from the work carried out contributed to the improvement of technological procedures for the restoration of tombstones. The knowledge gained from the work carried out was presented at professional seminars in the Czech Republic and abroad, and in cooperation with the Jewish Museum was published in proceedings.

See the website of the  Old Jewish Cemetery