The Jewish Museum is about to flip the switch on a $14.5-million transformation—and fittingly, it’s all about light. On October 24, the storied Warburg Mansion on Fifth Avenue reopens with reimagined collection galleries and an all-new, 7,000-square-foot Pruzan Family Center for Learning, marking the museum’s most sweeping renewal in more than 30 years.

Designed by UNS (Amsterdam) and New Affiliates Architecture (New York), with Method Design serving as the architect of record, the overhaul connects two floors of the museum through an airy, double-height gallery crowned by a glittering installation featuring more than 130 Hanukkah lamps. Together they symbolize what the museum calls “light as a universal metaphor for hope and enlightenment”—and form a literal bridge between storytel

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