•To promote, both within the country and abroad,
the story of 700 years of amity between Turks and Jews,
-begining with the Ottoman conquest of Bursa(1326)...
-continuing with Beyazid II's warm welcome of the Sephardic Jews who prefered expulsion from Spain to giving up the faith and traditions of their ancestors...
-and carriying on until today.

• To show through the past 700 years how the two cultures influenced each other.
• To display the humanitarian spirit of the Turkish Nation.

THE MISSION OF THE MUSEUM
is to collect, preserve, exhibit, interpret and disseminate knowledge about the cultural heritage of the Turkish Jews.

a sculpture by Nadia Arditti, dedicated to the Turkish-Jewish soldiers who fell while defending their homeland, welcomes the visitor at the entrance.