It is a walking tour (the minimum lenght of tour is 4 hours) in the area of Josefov named after the Emperor Josef II., situated in a part of the Old Town, where the Jewish Quarter existed approximately since 14th century till the year 1781. There, still standing and in use are the synagogues that are mostly used as museums, the Old Jewish Cemetery, and the Jewish Town Hall.
The first Jewish museum in Prague was founded already in 1906 to preserve valuable artefatcts from the Prague synagogues that were liquidated during the reconstruction of the Jewish Town at the beginning of the 20th century. The museum was closed after the Nazi occupation in 1939 . In 1942 the Nazis established the Central Jewish Museum , to which were brought artefacts from the destroyed Jewish communities , the Nazis approved the project of the Jewish museum staff to set up a central museum in Prague . During the Communist regime , everything was transferred under the pressure to the state . After the end of the Communist regime in 1989 , in 1994 everything was returned to the Jewsih Community of Prague .
The Jewish Museum has one of the most extensive collections of Judaic art in the world.

"Although it has been proven that the legend about the Golem and his scholarly creator did not emerge until the 19th century and the alleged "historical" writings about the Golem are fake, we are still waiting for an explanation why to this day Psalm 92 is sung twice in the Old-New Synagogue during the Friday service. According to legend, rabbi Loew was interrupted during his reading with a plea to stop his clay-made servant from running amok around ghetto."

Jerusalem Synagogue

The synagogue was dedicated on 16 September 1906 during the festival of Simhat Torah. The decision to build the synagogue had been made at the time of the 50th anniversary of the accession of Franz Joseph I to the Austrian Throne , it was named the Jubilee Synagogue in his honor.