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Berlin Jewish Museum

Architect Daniel Libeskind’s 1999 Jüdisches Museum Berlin uses a Baroque former courthouse as its entrance, but has no visible above ground connection between the two buildings. Visitors descending into the new building are faced with a jumble of oppressing zigzag passageways called “axes” with only one of them leading to upstairs exhibit areas. They feel the confusing choices European Jews faced with the looming Holocaust. Equally chaotic are the window slits on the zinc coated steel exterior façade in what Libeskind called "an irrational and invisible matrix". They may resemble a deconstructed Star of David.
Jewish Museum Entrance
Jewish Museum Entrance		 Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin		 Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin		 Jewish Museum Entrance
Jewish Museum Entrance
Jewish Museum Exhibit
Jewish Museum Exhibit		 Jewish Museum Exhibit
Jewish Museum Exhibit		 Axis of Exile
Axis of Exile		 Tower of Holocaust
Tower of Holocaust
Kollegienhaus Courtyard
Kollegienhaus Courtyard		 Jewish Museum Exhibit
Jewish Museum Exhibit		 Garden of Exile
Garden of Exile		 Jewish Museum Staircase
Jewish Museum Staircase

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