Jewish museum of Berlin

The Jewish museum of Berlin ( Jüdisches Museum ) is a Musée recalling 2000 years of Jewish Histoire in Germany. The first work of the American architect of Polish origin Daniel Libeskind, this building builds between 1993 and 1998 is called Blitz (the flash) by the Berlin ois and is very different by nature from any other museum.

History

A first museum exposing the Jewish Culture is founded with Berlin in 1933 with Oranienburger Strasse, but will be closed in 1938 by the mode Nazi. The idea of the reopening of such a museum in Germany will appear in 1971, then will take form in 1975 through the birth of an association which promotes this project. In 1978, following an exposure on the Jewish history, the museum of Berlin opens a special department. A contest is launched in 1989. The building is delivered in 1999, but no collection is presented there to the beginning. Indeed, the building is delivered without any element of scenography. A second contest will have to be awaited so that the collections can be transported since the Martin-Gropius-Beam where they were stored in a provisional way. Some will say that the museum empties much more interesting than was once filled, or rather overloaded by a scenography which presents thousands of objects of various nature. Others of course will be fascinated by the great richness of its collections exposing all the elements of the Jewish culture, since those of the everyday life to certain single parts. It will be finally inaugurated in 2001.

The building

The old building: Kollegienhaus

The construction of origin goes back to 1735, but only the external walls resisted the bombardments of the Second world war. Restored in 1963 as a museum of the town of Berlin, it is used today as entry with the Jewish museum. Circulation between the two buildings - which are not touched - is done by an underground which one reaches by a black staircase.

The building of Daniel Libeskind

The park

Museography

The collection

3000 m ² of permanent exposure to recall 2000 years of presence of the Jewish culture in Germany. Objets d'art, for unquestionable single a such candlestick of Hanoucca carried out in 1776 by the Berliner Master Georg Wilhelm Margraff, of the letters, the objects of the everyday life, the liturgical objects in direct relationship with elements multi-media very largely fill this space. If it seems to us overloaded, it is certainly by this skew that the scenographers want to make us feel the richness of this culture, its diversity, but also the extent of the shock which the German Nazism for this community represented. It is thus known never too if one is in a historical museum, or in the middle of an almost political proclamation to a certain extent.

Moreover, the museum proposes many events such as concerts, workshops, film projections and debates which contribute to make an alive place of it. Moreover, it is equipped with a library, files and of a multi-media research center.

Practical information

The museum is located at Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin.

It is open Monday to Saturday of 10:00 to 20:00.

See too

Jewish Museum
New synagog of Berlin

External bonds

the official site of the museum
the site of the emission of Arte devoted to this building
the site of Daniel Libeskind
Jüdisches Berlin Museum/Jewish Museum of Berlin, photographs

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