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Attraction · Berlin, Germany
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Germany's largest Jewish museum, in Kreuzberg, combining a Baroque building with Daniel Libeskind's 1999 extension, holding a core exhibition on two thousand years of German Jewish history plus the Garden of Exile and the Holocaust Tower.
Because it treats German Jewish history as a long, ordinary, complicated story rather than only as a prelude to genocide, and because the building itself is one of the most discussed pieces of architecture in Europe.
Free admission to the core exhibition for everyone. Serious, unsentimental curation across two millennia. The Libeskind spaces, particularly the Holocaust Tower and the Garden of Exile, do something that objects and labels cannot.
Some temporary exhibitions are ticketed, which surprises people once they know the core is free. The slanting floors and deliberate disorientation are physically tiring. This is not a museum you can visit lightly or briefly.
Anyone interested in German or Jewish history, visitors interested in contemporary architecture, and travellers on a budget given the free core exhibition.
You are short on time and have already booked the Holocaust Memorial and the Topography of Terror, since three heavy sites in one day is more than most people can absorb. Skip it if you need a museum you can walk out of after twenty minutes.
Allow more time than you think and eat first, because there is no natural break in the route. Go on a weekday morning if you want the Holocaust Tower without a queue, since it holds few people at a time. Check whether any temporary exhibition you want carries a charge.
Admission to the core exhibition is free of charge for everyone. Certain temporary exhibitions carry a charge, and guided group admission is priced separately by duration.
U1 or U6 to Hallesches Tor, or U6 to Kochstrasse. Both are about ten minutes on foot.
Lindenstrasse in Kreuzberg, south of Checkpoint Charlie, in a mixed residential and institutional part of central Berlin. The Berlinische Galerie is a few minutes away and the Topography of Terror is a fifteen-minute walk north.
Two to three hours for the core exhibition and the Libeskind spaces. Rushing it is possible but pointless.
The museum is step-free with lift access throughout and publishes detailed accessibility information; note that some Libeskind spaces have deliberately sloping floors.
One of the best museums in Berlin and the core exhibition costs nothing. Go on a weekday, allow half a day, and do not stack it against another Holocaust site on the same afternoon.
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Admission to the core exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin is free of charge for everyone. That is unusual for a museum of this scale and it removes the main reason people talk themselves out of going. The building is by Daniel Libeskind and it is not a container for the exhibition, it is part of it. Sharp angles, slanting floors, voids cut through the full height of the structure and a Holocaust Tower that is an…
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