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Welcome to Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, the first full-scale digital museum and research centre
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Why is Ben Uri different?
Our three principal and distinctive areas of public benefit are:
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Research and digitally record the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900 - including the current;
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Research and commission collection inspired art interventions for the over 70s to enrich their quality of life through digital channels;
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Develop our pioneering first full scale virtual museum and research centre to maximise engagement across a global digital audience.
Ben Uri was founded in 1915 in Whitechapel in the Jewish East End of London, and this new concept — virtual museum and research centre — represents our future in our second century of engagement. From here, we will fulfil our charity objects and generate valuable relationships with you through innovative sharing of our scholarship and research projects, collections, archives, exhibitions, digital catalogues, films, podcasts, schools and family learning, as well as our important, pioneering arts and health institute.
All our programming initiatives and ingredients stem from the imaginative use of our distinctive and growing museum collection, which uniquely represents the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual art since 1900.
We invite you to explore this virtual museum regularly, as it constantly evolves, with new research, exhibitions, films and much more being regularly added, so you can share in the many unexpected and quality experiences.
Please spend a few minutes looking at these three short films to give you a flavour of who we are and why we have transformed into a digital insititution with a physical presence.
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BEN URI PIONEERING A DIGITAL FUTURE TO MAXIMISE IMPACT
Immigration / Refugees / Artists Research: The compilation of a unique resource researching and recording the Hitler Emigres to Britain within the visual arts. Ben Uri surpasses ethnic, cultural and... -
MENTAL HEALTH FOR THE 70+ COMMUNITY
Mental Health: Over the past 10 years our pioneering Mental Health initiative has developed considerable weight. We have worked with university and medical professorial leaders in research and evaluation of... -
WHY BEN URI NEEDS AND IS WORTHY OF SUPPORT
We change lives: We manage our finances prudently as we invest your charity funds very carefully to maximise return on investment. Teddy Kollek famously said that ‘culture is the fresh...
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Max Beckmann, Day and Dream, Curt Valentin, New York, 1946
Forging an American Market for German Expressionism
Wednesday, 7 September 2022, 6.30 PM BSTCurt Valentin and Karl Nierendorf, German émigré art dealers who relocated to New York in the late 1930s, played critical roles in creating an American market for German Expressionism during the World War II era. Taking a cue from the 1938 Twentieth-Century German Artexhibition at London’s New Burlington Galleries, they did so by drawing attention to Expressionism’s defamation as “degenerate” in the Third Reich.
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To discover more and book tickets, please visit our What's on page.
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Enjoy a weekly selection of our online content
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David Bomberg - A Pioneer of Modernism
David Bomberg was born to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents in Birmingham, England, in 1890. The family moved to Whitechapel in 1895, where he became prominent among the ‘Whitechapel Boys’ — a... -
Judy Chicago & Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin
Catalogue Born into a left-wing, politically-active Jewish family in Chicago in 1939, Judy Cohen grew up in a household in which human rights and values were issues of principle, and the... -
3D Exhibitions
3D VIRTUAL GALLERIES In each exhibition you can navigate your journey through replica virtual galleries, enjoying an authentic exhibition experience. This unique digital perspective allows the artwork to be seen... -
INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD CORK ON BOMBERG
Bomberg: Exhibition at Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, 21 June 2018 - 16 September 2018 28 August 2018 -
Destination Masterpiece: 75 great artworks to see across the UK
Distinguished Guardian critics Jonathan Jones, Skye Sherwin and Nicholas Wroe have compiled a list of 75 ‘great artworks’ to see across the UK by region published on Saturday 18 June,... -
Eva Frankfurther featured in the Postwar Modern exhibition at Barbican Centre
10 March 2022 'Exhausted West Indian waitresses seek comfort in each other’s company at a restaurant bar, their weary hands resting on the surface in front of them as they hold a ladle...
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To explore the full width and breadth of our content please click on the links below
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What's On
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About Us
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Exhibitions
Explore some 700 exhibitions across 3 different platforms Whether you just want to meander or are looking to research, we have developed 3 different ways you can engage with over... -
Collections
Search the collection You can search and view the Pre-eminent and Core online and search by artist surname, country of origin, decade of birth or death, émigré, gender, object type,... -
Ben Uri Research Unit
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Published Scholarship
Explore over 40 essays and full exhibition catalogues on the Jewish and immigrant artistic contribution since 1900 We are dedicated to recording this contribution and building an extensive digital library... -
BU TV
Watch over 100 short films about artists, exhibitions and Ben Uri’s history and ethos Below are films and video content accompanying Ben Uri exhibitions, curator talks and related events, followed... -
Podcasts
Welcome to Audio Adventures Including new Brief Lives Podcasts Enjoy over 50 podcasts: interviews, migrant stories, discussions and excerpts from past exhibitions. -
Publications
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Kids
Explore and use over 200 different ways and secrets of Art Making! Ben Uri, in association with London Grid For Learning and the National Education Network, have developed online resources... -
Health
About Ben Uri Arts and Health Ben Uri Arts and Health Institute represents a core commitment to developing researched and evaluated art interventions for older people in care settings and... -
Contact Us
Please note we cannot offer any opinions on valuations or authenticity and will not respond to any such request. In such instances we advise you send by email to a... -
Support Us
WHY GIVE Ben Uri, registered charity 280389 , needs your help. We use art differently and change and enrich lives as a result. Please support our work as... -
Museum to Museum
EXPLORE and PARTNER the Ben Uri Exhibition and Collection Loan Programme — both physical and digital PHYSICAL 28 TOURING EXHIBITIONS including our new current presentation Becoming Gustav Metzger,... -
Press
Ben Uri Press Please see a selection of our news, press releases and features in the media. Why Give? Ben Uri is a registered British charity (280389) . We seek...
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