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Jewish Museum Berlin

History museum · Kreuzberg ·

Jewish Museum Berlin

History museum · Kreuzberg ·
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"A master class in museum design and how architecture can not only complement and enhance a collection but become part of it (the space is a fusion of an 18th-century building and a contemporary addition by Daniel Libeskind that slices against that original structure like a dagger scraping bone), Jewish Museum Berlin is as disquieting as it is perversely beautiful. Through that original structure (which is just as chilling in its own right, with contextual exhibits explaining basic tenets of Judaism in childlike simplest terms for Europeans who’ve never been tangentially exposed to the religion due to the practicing population’s annihilation and exile) visitors descend underground into Libeskind's order-less creation in which documents of the Holocaust and surrounding events are held. The floors slant, uneven, and the walls jut out at odd angles. Which way are you supposed to go? What horrors await you? When this part of the museum is silent, as it mostly is, all you can hear are confused footfalls and sighs." - Jennifer Ceaser

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Architecturally striking museum chronicles German-Jewish history and Holocaust.

Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Germany Get directions

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Architecturally striking museum chronicles German-Jewish history and Holocaust.

Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Germany Get directions

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Jewish Museum Berlin by Photo by Paul Sullivan
Jewish Museum Berlin by Linus Lintner/Courtesy Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin by Günter Schneider/Courtesy Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin by Photo by Paul Sullivan
Jewish Museum Berlin by Photo by Paul Sullivan
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