Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion

The Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which opened in December 2004, is a project of the Lubavitcher Hasidic community. In the process of adapting museological techniques—cutting-edge multimedia, environmental installation, gigantic ritual objects, hands-on and interactive activities—to the materializing of religion, the museum has developed a distinctive museology. The nature of that museology—precisely how it materializes religion and addresses the dilemmas that arise in the slippage between showing, demonstrating, and doing—is the subject of this roundtable.