Welcome to YIVO Exhibitions!

Our goal in creating exhibitions is to present material from the YIVO Archives and allow our vast collections to be made accessible to the international community. Through this website, viewers can explore YIVO's past and present exhibitions on display, gather information on its future exhibits, take virtual tours inside the YIVO Archives, and experience the material.

Founded in 1925 in Vilna, Poland (Wilno, Poland, now Vilnius, Lithuania), as the Yiddish Scientific Institute, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the history and culture of Ashkenazi Jewry and to its influence in the Americas. Headquartered in New York City since 1940, today YIVO is the world's preeminent resource center for East European Jewish Studies; Yiddish language, literature and folklore; and the American Jewish immigrant experience. The YIVO Library holds over 385,000 volumes in 12 major languages, and the Archives contains more than 24,000,000 pieces, including manuscripts, documents, photographs, sound recordings, art works, films, posters, sheet music, and other artifacts.