LMA designs Jewish history museum as dreamscape of village destroyed in Holocaust

A cluster of white gabled volumes that represent a village demolished during the Holocaust make up The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum, completed by Finnish architecture studio Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects in Lithuania.

Located in Šeduva, the museum is named after a shtetl – a Yiddish word for small towns of predominantly Ashkenazi Jews, which once existed in Eastern Europe.

It pays homage to the Šeduva shtetl, which was destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, with 664 of its...