Upcoming Events | The Breman Museum in Atlanta

The Breman Museum will be closed for Passover on Friday, April 26 and re-open on Sunday, April 28th.

This event has been CANCELED. Please visit one our other family programs, performances, and/or lectures around our newest exhibition "Inescapable: The Life and Legacy of Harry Houdini"

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

Join us on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day as we commemorate the six million Jewish people who perished in the Holocaust.

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

Emmy Award Winning actor, author, and magician Max Howard is one of America's most respected authorities on the art of performing theatrical magic. In this lecture, Howard explores not just the fundamental elements of theatre and magic, but also the period in which Houdini performed and how the theatrical customs of the times informed and influenced his performances.

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

Join us for a special guided tour of Atlanta’s High Museum as we explore the works of art that depict Jewish themes from the Bible to today. Also, see how an artist’s Jewish lens has influenced their contemporary art pratice.

Werner Reich was captured and imprisoned when he was 15 years old and spent time in three different concentration camps. While at Auschwitz, he saw a magician--the Great Nivelli--do a card trick, and this spawned a lifelong interest in magic. Werner joins magician, author, and entrepreneur Joshua Jay onstage for an interview about his unbelievable and harrowing time at Auschwitz, and the magic that helped him get through it and past it.

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

As Groucho once said: “time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” In the first half of the 20th century, The Marx Brothers revolutionized American comedy, creating indelible comic personas in their Broadway shows and films. This comic concert blends songs and anecdotes to paint a picture of the Marx Brothers' comic and musical accomplishments. The cast and band features seven accomplished local musicians and musical theater veterans. Laugh out loud to dozens of songs and learn about the ways that the Marx Brothers' Jewish heritage impacted their artistry and point of view.

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

The Breman museum will be closed Sunday, June 9th and reopen Tuesday, June 11th. in honor of Shavout.

The Breman museum will be closed Sunday, June 9th and reopen Tuesday, June 11th. in honor of Shavout.

In Judaism, there has been belief in the power of magic spells and rituals to help achieve health and success. The lecture by Rabbi Joe Prass traces the controversial role that magic has had in Jewish history and culture.

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

Tonight at the Breman you will have an opportunity to peek behind the curtain to see just how magicians interact and develop their skills. Both of the local clubs, IBM Ring 9 and SAM Assembly 30, will be on hand performing creative and mystifying feats. The theme of the evening is "Wild About Harry: Magic Inspired by Magical Harrys."

Join Historic Jewish Atlanta Tours at the Marietta Museum of History for a special lecture on the Leo Frank case by legal expert Van Pearlberg.

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

The city's top magical entertainers deliver an afternoon of exciting mysteries for the eyes and mind. Don't miss this opportunity to see a variety of excellent magicians doing what they do best. This family-friendly show is sure to please, so tell your friends.

This Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia Meeting will focus on DNA genealogy. The speaker for the meeting is Dr. David Bader chairs the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech and is a national expert on data science for solving real-world problems.

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

Joe M. Turner is one of Atlanta's best-known magicians and mentalists, having performed at thousands of corporate events, on cruises, in theatres and at private events across the country and around the world. His skills as a sleight-of-hand artist have led his peers to vote him Greater Atlanta Magician of the Year... three times! He has appeared at the Hollywood Magic Castle and is usually featured in the Parlor of Prestidigitation showroom. On this amazing evening at the Breman you'll enjoy Joe's one-man show and experience his charming style of magic for the eyes and for the mind.

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

Houdini historian and blogger John Cox has studied the life of Harry Houdini for over 40 years and consults on Houdini projects for radio, television, stage and film. In this talk, Cox covers areas of Houdini's life that are not generally known, such as how the great magician and escape artist was also a pioneer of early cinema. Houdini filmed many of his death-defying escapes, starred in several films, and even ran his own motion picture studio. Cox shares aspects of Houdini's amazing life and career with rare photos and film clips of Harry Houdini in "Action!"

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

Harry Houdini had an obsessive love/hate relationship with magic and the supernatural. While performing inexplicable feats of magic for millions around the world, he diligently reminded his audiences that he had no occult powers. However, when his mother, Cecelia Weisz, died; he turned to the supernatural in a desperate attempt to pull back the Veil and contact her. Houdini became a regular at seances, and psychic readings, usually finding con artists and fraud. Rolando Santos will look at the world of spiritualism that Harry Houdini encountered as he was : Pulling Back the Veil in Search of Cecelia.

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!

Do you want to learn some awesome magic? This summer at the Breman you'll have your chance! Every week a staff member or a visiting guest magician will perform and teach magic that you can do using items you have around the house. All ages welcome!