Become a Virtual Tourist Member Today!  Sign Up for Free | Sign In

Jewish Museum, Berlin

Search:
email to friend | help
Home » Travel Guides » Europe » Germany » Land Berlin » Berlin » Things To Do » Jewish Museum Reviews

Berlin Travel Guide

Jewish Museum, Berlin
See all Berlin Things To Do
Outside the Jewish Museum - Berlin
Outside the Jewish Museum
by fishandchips
Things to Do in Berlin: Jewish Museum tips and photos posted by real travelers and Berlin locals.
Jewish Museum
Lindenstraße 9-14, Berlin-Kreuzberg
• 79 Photos
• 49 Reviews

Sponsored Links for Berlin

Germany by Rail
Economical, Practical, On time Pick your Germany rail pass now.

500 Hotels in Berlin
Good availability and great rates. Book online now, pay at the hotel!

Rental Cars in Europe
Save up to 15% on a Car Rental with Free Upgrades Available in Europe!

Holiday Inn Berlin
Downtown & airport locations. Official site. Book online today.

Berlin Hotel Germany
Luxury, trendy & design hotels in Berlin. Reserve your hotel online!

Berlin Jewish Museum ReviewsTips 1 - 10 of 49  
Sort By:  Most Recent | Best Rated
Jewish Museum: Jewish Museum
  • Tip Rating:
  • By sue_stone on August 11, 2006
  • Email Me
  • See My Berlin Page
  • Send to a Friend
  • Exhibition in the Jewish Museum - Berlin
    Exhibition in the Jewish
    Museum
    by sue_stone, 4 more photos
    Send Photo to a Friend
    Berlin's Jewish Museum is the largest museum of its type in Europe and is a must see on any visit to Berlin. It is also the most significant example of contemporary architecture in Berlin. The museum documents the German-Jewish relationship throughout the centuries. There are different exhibition rooms and way more information to soak up then you could even begin to attempt in a short visit like we had. Highlights of the visit for me were the windowless Holocaust Tower, a dark, empty, high-sided tower where you can stand and reflect on the horrors of the Holocaust; and out in the Garden of Exile, where tall stone pillars on a slope give you a feel for the isolation and loss of orientation experienced by those forced to live in exile. Very moving stuff. Opening hours are: Monday from 10am - 10pm and Tuesday-Sunday from 10am - 8pm The museum cost us 5 euro each to visit in May 2006.

    Leave a Comment

  • Phone: (030) 25993-300
  • Directions: Nearest Subway: Hallesches Tor (U1 & U6)
  • Website: http://www.jmberlin.de
  • Other Contact: info@jmberlin.de

    • Add to Your Trip Planner  Post a Question  Write a Tip on Jewish Museum
    Rate      Not Helpful  1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful
    Jewish Museum: Judisches museum
  • Tip Rating:
  • By Emke on February 29, 2004
  • Email Me
  • See My Berlin Page
  • Send to a Friend
  • Fallen leaves by Shalechet - Berlin
    Fallen leaves by
    Shalechet
    by Emke
    Send Photo to a Friend
    I was never more impressed by a sculpture than by 'fallen leaves' in the Jewish Museum. You were supposed to walk on the iron 'faces' and that made a lot of noice since the sculpture is located in a huge concrete tower. But I wouldn't step on the faces; it gave me the goose bumps. In the museum there are more interesting things to see. It is a really great building, built by Daniel Liebeskind, the architect who is going to build something on ground zero in New York. In the museum there are really nice multimedia programmes where the history of the jewes comes alive. It's impressive. Even when you are not really into musea, I strongly recommend you to visit the museum. It is worth the visit. Oh, very important: remind not to accidently bring a pocketnife or something like that. At the entrance you will be searched for any 'weapons' and you have to walk through a metal detector.

    Leave a Comment

  • Phone: (030) 30 87 85 - 681
  • Directions: U-Bahn: Hallesches Tor
  • Website: http://www.jmberlin.de

    • Add to Your Trip Planner  Post a Question  Write a Tip on Jewish Museum
    Rate      Not Helpful  1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful
    Jewish Museum: Two Millennia of German Jewish History
  • Tip Rating:
  • Updated By Nemorino on December 23, 2005
  • Email Me
  • See My Berlin Page
  • Send to a Friend
  • Jewish Museum, old building from new one - Berlin
    Jewish Museum, old building
    from new one
    by Nemorino
    Send Photo to a Friend
    The Jewish Museum in Berlin tells the story of the Holocaust, of course, but also of the two thousand years of German Jewish history that went before. There are vivid, detailed exhibits on fourteen historical periods, from the beginnings through the Middle Ages and up to the present, designed to "show how tightly Jewish life and German history are interwoven." The entrance, security area and restaurant are in an older building, and from there you go way down into the basement of the new part, which is a striking zinc-paneled building by the architect Daniel Libeskind. In the basement there three long intersecting axes: the longest is the "axis of continuity", which is intersected by the axis of exile (leading out to a "Garden of Exile and Emigration") and the axis of the holocaust, which leads to a dead end at the "Holocaust Tower". At the end of the axis of continuity you go up a long flight of stairs to the second floor, where the permanent exhibition begins. The photo shows the older museum building as seen from the new one. For more photos and details, please see my travelogue on the Jewish Museum. Or have a look at my Local Customs Tips to see how the Jewish Museum Berlin is being advertised all over Germany this summer.

    Leave a Comment

  • Phone: (030) 30 87 85 - 681
  • Directions: U-Bahn: Hallesches Tor
  • Website: http://www.jmberlin.de

    • Add to Your Trip Planner  Post a Question  Write a Tip on Jewish Museum
    Rate      Not Helpful  1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful
    Jewish Museum: Jewish Museum
  • Tip Rating:
  • By diocletianvs on March 5, 2006
  • Email Me
  • See My Berlin Page
  • Send to a Friend
  • Jewish museum Berlin - Berlin
    Jewish museum Berlin
    by diocletianvs
    Send Photo to a Friend
    There are several things that make the Jewish Museum one of the best museums in the world, and a place not to be missed in Berlin. First, it is an extraordinary piece of architecture - built by Daniel Liebeskind, it is shaped like deconstructed Star of David, on the imaginary lines that link various points in Berlin that were important in the history of Jews of Berlin. Second good thing is the museum presentation itself. It is interactive, and displays the role Jews had in scientific and cultural life of Berlin and Germany. The third good thing for me was the presentation of the holocaust. Not the usual pictures that are hard to look at and that we all get to know by now. No - what Liebeskind shows here (after you've seen the contributions in science, music, poetry, arts etc) is the void - a series of empty rooms that represent the cultural gaps left in Germany after the Holocaust. There are two rooms that are dead-ends on the museum axes. One displays metal plates that creep as you walk on them. The other one is a dark empty room where you are asked to enter alone and think for some time. Stop and think - something so easy, and yet something we so often forget to do in this mad world around us.

    Leave a Comment

  • Phone: (030) 30 87 85 - 681
  • Directions: U-Bahn: Hallesches Tor
  • Website: http://www.jmberlin.de

    • Add to Your Trip Planner  Post a Question  Write a Tip on Jewish Museum
    Rate      Not Helpful  1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful
    Jewish Museum: Jewish Museum
  • Tip Rating:
  • Updated By pili on December 19, 2003
  • Email Me
  • See My Berlin Page
  • Send to a Friend
  • Jewish Museum - Berlin
    Jewish Museum
    by pili
    Send Photo to a Friend
    The centre point of the museum is the Holocaust Tower, a vertical, bare concrete void with a single shaft of light at the top. You can enter a few at a time through a heavy steel gate. Inside, it is damp and cool. You experience what it is to hear street noise, and see light, but otherwise be cut off from the world outside. Leading to the tower a display of individual stories of Holocaust victims told through pictures, letters, and memorabilia left behind, is one of the museum's most moving exhibits.-

    Leave a Comment

  • Phone: (030) 30 87 85 - 681
  • Directions: U-Bahn: Hallesches Tor
  • Website: http://www.jmberlin.de

    • Add to Your Trip Planner  Post a Question  Write a Tip on Jewish Museum
    Rate      Not Helpful  1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful
    Jewish Museum: Fallen leaves
  • Tip Rating:
  • Updated By kris.velter on July 28, 2005
  • Email Me
  • See My Berlin Page
  • Send to a Friend
  • Fallen Leaves - Berlin
    Fallen Leaves
    by kris.velter
    Send Photo to a Friend
    The most beautiful work of art - according to me- inside the Jewish Museum is made by the artist Menashe Kadishman. It's an istallation with iron heads with big eyes and mouth. I quote the message that hangs by the installation: "Menashe Kadishman's installation is first a memorial to the holocaust. But he reaches beyond this and dedicates it to all innocent victims of war. He request that visitors walk upon the work. The title 'Fallen leaves' raises suggestions both of negative predestination and hope for new life in the coming spring." I did what Kadishman asked.

    Leave a Comment

  • Phone: (030) 30 87 85 - 681
  • Directions: U-Bahn: Hallesches Tor
  • Website: http://www.jmberlin.de

    • Add to Your Trip Planner  Post a Question  Write a Tip on Jewish Museum
    Rate      Not Helpful  1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful
    Jewish Museum: Jewish Museum
  • Tip Rating:
  • Updated By sabsi on September 16, 2003
  • Email Me
  • See My Berlin Page
  • Send to a Friend
  • Jewish Museum - Berlin
    Jewish Museum
    by sabsi
    Send Photo to a Friend
    The Jewish museum is one of the new attractions of Berlin, thousands of people are visiting every day. Its architecture by Daniel Libeskind is amazing. The building is zigzag shaped, on the outside it has many scars. The scars symbolise the German-Jewish history, the shape is supposed to be a deconstructed star of David. The museum shows 2000 years of Jewish history. We went here to see an excellent exhibition on the architecture of Libeskind though (actually we went here twice because stupid as we are the exhibition started a day later than we thought. Wait! Actually we didn't think at all ;)

    Leave a Comment

  • Phone: (030) 30 87 85 - 681
  • Directions: U-Bahn: Hallesches Tor
  • Website: http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de

    • Add to Your Trip Planner  Post a Question  Write a Tip on Jewish Museum
    Rate      Not Helpful  1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful
    Jewish Museum: Jewish Museum
  • Tip Rating:
  • Updated By pili on December 19, 2003
  • Email Me
  • See My Berlin Page
  • Send to a Friend
  • Jewish Museum - Berlin
    Jewish Museum
    by pili
    Send Photo to a Friend
    The museum must be seen as two different experiences. One experience, is the architecture of Daniel Libeskind. The zinc-clad structure is designed to create a sense of disorientation, interspersed with feelings of claustrophobia and panic, to convery the horrors of persecution; while the other, the permanent exhibition, is a chronological history of the Jews in Germany.-

    Leave a Comment

  • Phone: (030) 30 87 85 - 681
  • Directions: U-Bahn: Hallesches Tor
  • Website: http://www.jmberlin.de

    • Add to Your Trip Planner  Post a Question  Write a Tip on Jewish Museum
    Rate      Not Helpful  1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful
    Jewish Museum: Moving and Disorienting
  • Tip Rating:
  • By TempNomad on July 28, 2005
  • Email Me
  • See My Berlin Page
  • Send to a Friend
  • Don't miss this memorial to the Jewish War Dead. - Berlin
    Don't miss this memorial to
    the Jewish War Dead.
    by TempNomad
    Send Photo to a Friend
    We visited the Judisches Museum with the intention of spending an hour perusing the exhibits. We ended up staying for about three hours looking at the various exhibits and displays. It's multi-media experience. It's not a Holocaust Museum; it's a history of the Jewish People in Germany, for the most part. I strongly recommend a visit. It's included in the state sponsored card, and admission is 8 Euro for a regular admission. The visit has lots of spaces to check out. There is the concrete memorial (see travelogue) and a room of silence and reflection. There are exhibits of sound, sight, and feel (try putting on a peddlar's pack!). It's great for adults and children. Lots of stuff for everyone to experience. The exhibits are mainly in German, but there are English translations (albeit sparse). In the film about Geman/Jewish history, the English is very sparse. In fact, most of the non-German speakers (of all nationalities) ended up leaving before the end. Definitely set aside a few hours for this Museum!

    Leave a Comment

  • Phone: (030) 30 87 85 - 681
  • Directions: U-Bahn: Hallesches Tor
  • Website: http://www.jmberlin.de

    • Add to Your Trip Planner  Post a Question  Write a Tip on Jewish Museum
    Rate      Not Helpful  1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful
    Jewish Museum: Jewish Museum (The Garden of Exile)
  • Tip Rating:
  • By pili on December 19, 2003
  • Email Me
  • See My Berlin Page
  • Send to a Friend
  • Garden of Exile - Berlin
    Garden of Exile
    by pili
    Send Photo to a Friend
    The Garden of Exile wants you to think about the disorientation that exile brings. Forty-nine columns are filled with earth in which willow oak trees grow. Forty-eight contain earth from Berlin and stand for the 1948 formation of the State of Israel. The forty-ninth central column is filled with earth from Jerusalem and stands for Berlin itself. The architect sought to replicate the feeling of being lost, starting in new land, the feelings of the exiled Jews in a foreign land, and that is exactly how you feel when you walk through this garden.-

    Leave a Comment

  • Phone: (030) 30 87 85 - 681
  • Directions: U-Bahn: Hallesches Tor
  • Website: http://www.jmberlin.de

    • Add to Your Trip Planner  Post a Question  Write a Tip on Jewish Museum
    Rate      Not Helpful  1   2   3   4   5  Very Helpful
    1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
    More Berlin Tips
    Overview
         		General Tips
    Tips: 745 - Photos: 651
    Restaurants
    Tips: 578 - Photos: 375    		Hotels and Accommodations
    Tips: 486 - Photos: 273
    Things To Do
    Tips: 3,040 - Photos: 2,829    		Nightlife
    Tips: 324 - Photos: 227
    Off the Beaten Path
    Tips: 469 - Photos: 400    		Tourist Traps
    Tips: 136 - Photos: 92
    Warnings or Dangers
    Tips: 143 - Photos: 79    		Transportation
    Tips: 507 - Photos: 337
    Local Customs
    Tips: 253 - Photos: 196    		Packing Lists
    Tips: 30 - Photos: 22
    Shopping
    Tips: 218 - Photos: 175    		Sports Travel
    Tips: 55 - Photos: 47
    Flights
    Tips: 54 - Photos: 32

    More Sponsored Links for Berlin

    Berlin - Short Stay Apts.
    Berlin's unique stylish alternative to a hotel. Independent + downtown

    Berlin Hotels
    Book with the Hotel Experts for Guaranteed Low Rates at Top Hotels

    Hotel in Berlin
    Great choice of hotels in Berlin. Book online now for low rates!

    Search Hotels
    Find the best room rates
    All Berlin Hotels

    Check-In Date:


    Check-Out Date:


    Guests

    Hotels by OneTime.com

    Popular Hotels and Accommodations in Berlin

    » More Hotels and Accommodations in Berlin

    Popular Things To Do in Berlin

    » More Things To Do in Berlin
    Find:        Matching:  Advanced