IWM NORTH

IWM North was the first building in the UK designed by the internationally acclaimed architect, Daniel Libeskind, who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin and was recently behind the masterplan for the Ground Zero site in New York. Daniel Libeskind was born in Poland, the second child of Polish Jewish parents who had survived the Holocaust. His insistence that the architecture of a museum should give richer meaning to its subject matter was just what we wanted.

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I wanted to visit the IWM in my last Semester as Daniel Libeskind was the first source of inspiration for my MA.

It was great to be able to see the museum in person and compare my experience to visiting the Jewish Museum in Berlin.