Jewish Museum Lecce

Immersive and informative filled with emotion and authenticity. So much important Jewish history in the Lecce / Apulia region since 11th century. Well worth a visit

Highly recommend this wonderful museum delineating two periods of Jewish history in Lecce. Included with the entrance fee, you are given a thorough tour explaining the historical significance of the building as well as the two periods of history. The English tour is very well done. There are many artifacts which were given to the museum by Jewish families that passed through Salento after WWII, which add authenticity and emotion to this museum. This museum is a must see during your visit to Lecce.

Wonderful museum of medieval Jewish community of Lecce. Take the tour with Mirabel, a wonderful guide in English. Thank you to the Khalili family who made this museum posible. And to Michelangelo who asked himself 3 years ago, ‘why is this street called the vía di sinogogo?’

A project in its infancy, attempting to bring to life of the stories of a community violently expelled 500 years ago, never to return. The excellent guide did her best with very little concrete evidence. Worthwhile.

The team behind the museum are amazing people. Pay a visit to Michelangelo the guy in the tourist office next to the museum as he is one of the founders of this museum. His team are lovely. My friend and I were visiting Lecce today during Covid where there are no tourists and they welcomed us and gave us a lovely tour. You can see it on youtube on my channel Faithfultoself

Very interesting please. Professionally organized . Very friendly.

I did not expect to learn so much here. The friendly guides offer tours in several languages. There is not much to see but what they do have is truly unique and the stories and research they share are abundant. I wish They had a book available of all the information I learned here. The museum shoes plans for future exhibits and I would gladly return. They also have a unique gift shop with an array of beautiful keepsakes as well as wine and other shelf stable food items. They day I went there was an artist working on site. Highly recommend!

This museum is an amazing place, full of Jewish history. We did the 1 hour tour, the guide Marta was incredible, and we learned a lot. Definitely we want to come back, and we recommend people come to this place to learn about the forgotten Jewish history in the south of Italy!