The Moravian Jewish Museum Mehrin wants to show the history and present of the Jewish presence in Moravia through authentic life stories of Moravian Jews. The city of Brno has contributed the land at the edge of which you are standing to the project. The picture shows a visualisation of the future museum by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, winner of an international architectural competition.
The building of the Moravian Jewish Museum should become a new landmark in the currently somewhat urbanistically bleak location of the Brno Ring. Within sight of most of the key sites of Brno's Jewish presence, a multifunctional building will be created to serve the wider neighbourhood - and to remind us of the global context of Brno.
The Brno Ring or Ring Avenue (German: Ringstraße) is a representative inner ring of Brno, which was created in the second half of the nineteenth century on the model of Vienna. It was proposed to create a boulevard with tree-lined gardens on the area vacated by the demolition of the baroque city walls, which would include the city's most important public buildings.
Can you name some important public buildings standing on the Ring in Brno?