The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) is a non-collecting museum located at 736 Mission Street and Yerba Buena Lane in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) area. The museum, which opened in 1984, is housed in the old Jessie Street Substation, which was gutted and renovated by Daniel Libeskind, coupled with a new extension. The museum's purpose is to employ exhibitions and educational activities to make the variety of the Jewish experience relevant to a twenty-first-century audience.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum was established in 1984 and spent almost two decades in a tiny exhibition space near San Francisco's waterfront. The museum began a planning process in 1989 to meet the expanding community demand for its programming. As a result, the decision was made to build a larger, more centrally placed institution with more exhibitions, an education space, and other program areas such as live music, theater, dance, literary events, and cinema. The museum moved to a new 63,000-square-foot structure in downtown San Francisco in June 2008.

Location: 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Website: thecjm.org