Jewish Museum in Berlin

Friday, 29 January 2010 10:17

Berlin Guide - Museums

Jewish Museum in Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) it's a museum summarizing the history of two thousand years of German Jews' existence. It consists of two parts - Kollegienhaus (former court building) and the building constructed specially for the Museum by Daniel Libeskind. In the first five years of its existence, the museum was visited by three and a half million people.

Kollegienhaus

This part of the museum was designed by Philipp Gerlach in 1735 and initially served as a judicial building. It was reconstructed and rebuilt several times. Currently the building serves as the entrance to the Jewish Museum. Box office, cloakroom, shop and restaurant are also located there. The building helds Kollegienhaus temporary exhibitions. Black stairs located inside the building lead to the new part of the museum, designed by Libeskind.

Libeskind's Building

The building has an area of 15 000 square meters. Its shape, thanks to usage of interlacing triangles and zigzag - lines, refers to the shape of compressed, irregular star. The surface of the building is covered with reflective zinc tiles irregularly slitted by windows, which are the imaginary line connecting the places where prominent Jews and Germans lived before the war, among others Heinrich von Kleist, Arnold Schoenberg, and Walter Benjamin

Vertically, through the building  run five spaces called Voids ( "emptiness"), they are not artificially lit, air conditioned and heated, the walls are made of raw concrete. In one of these spaces there is a sculpture Menashe Kadishmana Fri Shalechet - metal human faces, with mouths open to scream, covering the floor, which forces the visitor to walk on them.

In addition to the building there is also a "Garden of Exile" (Garten des Exils). Inside of which 48 concrete columns filled with soil from Israel stand (to commemorate 1948 year, when Israel became independent) and one located in the center, a concrete column filled with earth from Jerusalem (it symbolizes Berlin). Garden is inclined at an angle of 12 degrees, which cause confusion to visitors, similar to the experiences of immigrants in Berlin.

Address

Lindenstraße 9-14
10969  Berlin
Jüdisches Museum web
Phone: 030 25 99 33 00

Access

Underground: U Hallesches Tor: U1, U6
Bus: Franz-Klühs-Str.: 248
      Jüdisches Museum: 248 
      Waldeckpark: 248

Opening hours

Daily: 10am - 8pm,
Monday: 10am -10pm
Closed: 9/30, 10/1, 10/9, 12/24

Prices

Adults:5EUR
Reduced:2,50 EUR

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