Important British Treasure Saved for the Jewish Museum London

LONDON.- The Jewish Museum has successfully raised the funds to secure the ‘Lindo lamp’, the earliest known English Hanukah lamp and one of the treasures of British Jewish heritage, ensuring its continued place in the museum’s collection. The museum has raised grants totalling £282,000 in order to purchase this unique piece of 18th century silver Judaica from its current owners. The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) contributed £145,000 while membership charity the Art Fund and the MLA /V&A Purchase Fund awarded £75,000 and £30,000 respectively. The remaining funds have now been raised from private sources to secure the future of this outstanding item in the museum’s collection and to prevent it from being removed from the public sphere. Before being purchased for the collection, the Hanukah lamp was on loan to the Jewish Museum, where it was on display for over 70 years, since the 1930s. It

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