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Welcome to Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, the first full-scale digital museum and research centre

Why is Ben Uri different?

Our three principle and distinctive areas of public benefit are:

• Research and digitally record the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900 - including the current;

• Research and commission collection inspired art interventions for the over 70s to enrich their quality of life through digital channels;

• 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. 

Enjoy a weekly selection of our online content

To explore the full widths and breadths of our content please click on the links below