The U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art seeks to tell the stories of Jewish communities in Italy and around the world via items which together create a rich web of memories, experiences, emotions, and anecdotes. Since its inception, the museum's storerooms have accumulated numerous items that reflect the identity and uniqueness of the museum itself and of the communities it represents.

The exhibition Out of Sight directs the observer's view inwards – towards the museum's own collection – shedding light on the museum's historical undertaking to assemble items, on their documentation and curatorship, and on the exhibitions that it has hosted over the years. Museums that focus on Jewish art, ethnography, and Jewish history generally present traditional perceptions of the ways in which identity, culture and material and visual culture are displayed. The exhibition Out of Sight seeks to challenge these perceptions, to speculate, to ask questions, and even to propose alternative ways in which it is possible and fitting to present the stories of Italian Jewry to the public at large.

As alluded to by its name, this exhibition invites visitors to step behind the scenes of the Museum of Italian Jewish Art and offers them a glimpse of the secured vaults in its basements, via a video mapping installation created especially for it. This exposure evokes a discussion of ethical curatorship questions all related to the question as to which items should be positioned at the forefront of the museum's display cabinets and which should be kept in storage far from visitors' eyes. Out of Sight presents objects associated with the religious-ritual domain, alongside items from the day-to-day life of Italian Jewry, many of which are not necessarily consistent with the accepted narrative canon. Also displayed are items that do not comply with the aesthetic canon: several of these are flawed while others bear the marks of time or are incomplete, nevertheless they are all important and all tell their own unique story, the story of the collection, and that of the museum together with the story of Italian Jewry.
The exhibition is displayed in the museum's five galleries, a spatial layout that allows the visitor to walk through and experience the exhibition in a circular movement.