Jewish Museum Berlin

A welcome rebirth

The Jewish Museum Berlin is dedicated to the narrative of Germany’s Jewish population: their early history, suffering and survival. The museum’s permanent collection contains a great fund of material, stories and knowledge concerning all areas of German Jewish history and special exhibitions explore topics ranging from local histories to global projects.

One of the most spectacular museum buildings in Germany, the museum has been a magnet for the public since its opening, attracting 350,000 people even as an empty shell before its official inauguration in 2001. The radical architecture undoubtedly the cause for this initial popularity. Numerous views and opinions have been expressed on the Jewish Museum Berlin. Whether visitors see Libeskind’s new building as a “spectacular” or a “normal” museum, a deconstructivist masterpiece, a groundbreaking creation, intellectuality in the form of a house, or even an exhibit in its own right—the architect placed great emphasis on people’s perceptions of the structure and its volumes, perceptions which are formed anew day after day with each new visitor. Quote_transparent

Lindenstraße 9-14
10969 Berlin
+493025993300
www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de
info@jmberlin.de
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The building is very distinctive from other museums, since it does not respond to any functional requirements, but is rather constructed to create spaces that tell the story of the Jewish people in Germany. The museum itself is a work of art, blurring the lines between architecture and sculpture. The view from above is that of a large zig-zag line, which earned it the nickname "blitz". The main building is covered with zinc plating, and the windows are just lines that cross the surface in a random fashion. These lines were created from connecting different sites in a Berlin map that are important to Jewish history. This building has no access of any kind from the street. The entrance is located in an adjacent building, a museum of German history, through a staircase and tunnel embedded in a concrete tower that goes through all the floors of the German museum. This symbolizes that German and Jewish history are inseparable, violent and secret. The staircase leads to an underground site, composed of three hallways, called axes: The Axis of Death, leads to a concrete tower that has been left empty, called The Holocaust Tower; The Axis of Exile, which leads to an exterior square courtyard composed of concrete columns and that has been tilted in one of its corners, called The Garden of Exile; and The Axis of Continuity, that goes through the other two hallways, representing the permanence of Jews in Germany in spite of the Holocaust and the Exile.