YIVO Learning and Media Center Open House

Sunday Aug 24 11:00am-4:00pm
Photographer: Brian Hatton
Open House

Admission: Free

Registration is required.

Note the August 24, 2025 open house is for the general public only. If you are an educator, please register for the educator open house on August 17, 2025.

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Come tour YIVO’s brand new Learning and Media Center!

YIVO is opening the doors to its new YLMC, a publicly accessible space for visitors to come and explore Jewish history and the YIVO Collections.

The space features a striking welcome vestibule highlighting photographs and objects from YIVO’s storied history, artifact displays from the YIVO Archives and Library, interactive activities like a poster-making station and a touch-screen map featuring hundreds of photos of Jewish life in Eastern European towns and cities, an intimate open-stacks library with Yiddish and English books, multimedia stations for listening to sound recordings and watching videos from the YIVO Collections, and a classroom for lessons that utilize rare archival materials.

During this open house, the general public is invited to visit YIVO's Learning and Media Center and take a guided tour of the new space with YLMC Educator Susannah Trubman. Families are welcome! If you are an educator interested in attending, please register for the August 17, 2025 open house.

Space is limited! Sign up today to be among the first to see the YLMC.