• The Colmar Treasure or Colmar hoard is a hoard of precious objects buried by Jews of the Holy Roman Empire at the time of the Black Death pogroms.
  • The Colmar Treasure—a precious cache of jewels and coins belonging to a Jewish family in medieval Alsace—is on loan from the Musée de Cluny, Paris.
  • The Met Cloisters presents the precious objects of Colmar Treasure from Musee de Cluny in Paris alongside the Judaica from its collection and the private funds.
  • Those objects as well as the dates on the 384 silver coins — ranging from 1180 to the 1330s and 1340s — linked the Treasure to a 1348-49 plague in Colmar.
  • Consisting of objects that are small in scale and relatively few in number, the Colmar Treasure will be displayed alongside related works from The Cloisters...
  • For centuries, the Colmar treasure was hidden away. Now, the rare objects and tragic story of a medieval Jewish community come to light at The Met Cloisters.
  • It will be displayed with related works from other public and private collections in The Colmar Treasure: A Medieval Jewish Legacy, which opens this month at...
  • Regularly on display at the Musée de Cluny in Paris, the Colmar treasure is now on loan to the Met Cloisters through January 12, 2020.
  • A map to accompany a book and an exhibition at the Met Cloisters about a cache of precious objects hidden by the Jewish community of Colmar...
  • Jewish Ceremonial Wedding Ring from the Colmar Treasure (circa 1300). Photo by Jean-Gilles Berizzi, courtesy of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux.
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