The Jewish Museum

Today we visited the Jewish Museum in Berlin. It chronicled the experiences of Jews in Europe from the time of the Roman empire to the present. The exhibit did a very good job of weaving together issues of class, culture, religion, nation, economics, and gender. The museum structure was designed by Daniel Libeskind, the same architect who designed the new addition to the ROM in Toronto. Libeskind dubbed the design 'Between the Lines,' a title which reflects the tensions of German-Jewish history. The building takes the shape of two zig-zagging lines, which intersect at various points in the form of wide, empty voids and criss-crossing pedestrian pathways. In taking this form, the design contributes to the history of Jews in Germany being told inside.