The Jewish Museum is in the house Wertheimer, historic building, named in honor of a Hungarian Rabbi Samson of Wertheimer (1658-1724). The decision on the basis of the Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt was taken in 1969 at the forum of the Institute of Jewish studies at the University of Vienna. The Museum was opened three years later, in 1972.

The Jewish Museum is located in an area of nearly 1000 square meters and is divided into several exhibition halls.

While visiting the Museum you can see the private synagogue, located on the first floor of the building. This small synagogue is one of the few that didn't suffer during the "Crystal night" or "Night of broken glass") in November 1938. It was the first such large-scale attack by the Nazis on the Jews. That night, a mass wave of Jewish pogroms in the territory of the Third Reich was destroyed 267 synagogues, killed 91 Jews, hundreds injured and maimed and thousands have been subjected to humiliation and insults, more than 30 thousand were sent to concentration camps.

Also, the Museum offers to get acquainted with its permanent exhibition, providing comprehensive coverage of Jewish life and history of Jews in Burgenland. At the end of the exhibition is the impressive memorial hall, established in memory of the seven known Jewish communities in Burgenland.

Also, the Museum has a library, which contains more than 10,000 volumes. Some of the books are in the permanent exhibition of the Museum, in General, these books of the 18th century. In addition, the library features a large collection of facsimile editions of famous books. Deserves special attention is a valuable collection of books in Yiddish.

The Museum is located in the district of Unterstadt (Lower Town), where in 1670 he settled about 3,000 Jews expelled from Vienna. Near the Museum are two old Jewish cemetery.