THE JEWISH MUSEUM BERLIN

louisedalrymple7
Sep 23, 2020
1 min read

Updated: Dec 19, 2020

I visited the Jewish Museum in Berlin 5 years ago and I have never experienced such a strong feeling of emotion from a building. With this in mind I have used it this as the starting point for my MA studies research.

I have now discovered further through videos, articles, and books.

“The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.” DL

''Three basic ideas formed from the foundation for the Jewish Museum design: first, the impossibility of understanding the history of Berlin without understanding the enormous intellectual, economic, and cultural contribution made by it's Jewish citizens; second the necessity to integrate the meaning of the Holocaust, both physically and spiritually, into the consciousness and memory of the city of Berlin; third that only through acknowledging and incorporating this erasure and void of Berlin's Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a future." DL