Since then the Jewish community has been demanding for a new Jewish Museum to re-open. After many years, in 2001, it did, with a new building designed by Daniel Libeskind. The museum itself is constructed in order  to create spaces that tell the history of  Jewish people in Germany. You will find the museum design so intricate and meaningful that you will think that this is a huge sculpture.

 

When the museum is seen from above, you realize that it has the form of a thunderbolt. The windows have lines that cross the surface in a seemingly random fashion but are in fact lines connecting different sites on a Berlin map that are important to Jewish History . You can’t enter the museum from the street but you will have to go through an adjacent building which displays German History. This is done so you can see that Jewish History and German History are inseparable. The entrance to the museum is intentionally made difficult and long, in order for the visitor to feel the challenge and hardship that is distinctive of Jewish History. In September 2007, the Jewish Museum Berlin celebrated the opening of its spectacular Glass Courtyard. The Glass Courtyard provides the Museum with a room where events such as educational workshops, concerts, theatrical performances and receptions for up to 500 people can be held year round.

Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin
Τel: +49 (0)30 259 93 300
Fax: +49 (0)30 259 93 409
info@jmberlin.de

Admission

5.00 euro: Adult
2.50 euro: Reduced
Free for children under 6