"I wanted to kiss this place goodbye because I can't believe it, that they're going to close it up for a year," said Sonya Blum, who has been visiting the museum since the start. "I don't know how I'm going to do it because automatically we take BART we come down. Our first stop always is the Jewish Museum."
"The work that we're doing now by taking a temporary closure and putting together the team to re-envision the Contemporary Jewish Museum will enable us to have a long-term future," said Kerri King, the museum's executive director.
"Especially in a time of rising antisemitism, I think it's so important that we have a place that's just meant to celebrate contemporary Jewish life and culture, and just connect with people," said Arlo Waingortin.
"It's important to me because it's modern art, everything is modern and there's nowhere else I can see it but here, so when I walk out I feel like a new person, more knowledgeable, more open-minded," said Sonya Blum.
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