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Kimmel Kick-Starts $100M Jewish Museum

PHILADELPHIA-A $25-million check from the man who gave The Kimmel Center a jump-start and its name gets the long-planned new National Museum of American Jewish History off the ground. The 80,000-sf, five-story, glass-and-stone structure is planned for Independence Mall.

By Marita Thomas | Updated on November 12, 2002

PHILADELPHIA-Plans to replace the existing National Museum of American Jewish History on Independence Mall with a new $100-million, 80,000-sf home got a kick-start Monday with a $25-million donation from local philanthropist Sidney Kimmel. James Polshek of New York-based Polshek Partnership is lead architect for the five-story, stone-and-glass structure.

Polshek recently completed the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York’s American Museum of Natural History among other notable museums around the world.

The new Jewish museum will be on Independence Mall East where the current museum now stands. The Congregation Mikveh Israel, which is connected to the existing museum, will remain. It is among the country’s oldest synagogues and its congregation founded the original museum in 1976.

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