Gallery - Jewish Museum Berlin

Jewish Museum in Berlin: Exterior
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View of the Jewish Museum Berlin from Linderstrassse. The building was designed by Daniel Libeskind and completed in 1999. The concrete columns are a part of the E.T.A. Hoffmann Garden of Exile and Emigration.

Close-up of the zinc-clad exterior of the museum. The architect determined the pattern of the windows by drawing lines connecting the addresses of Germans and Jews on a map of the surrounding neighborhood.

The Garden of Exile and Emigration, in front of the south facade of the museum. Forty-nine concrete columns stand at an incline, with trees planted inside. Forty-eight columns, filled with Berlin earth, stand for 1948, the year the nation of Israel was born. The 49th column, filled with earth from Jerusalem, stands for Berlin.

Close-up of zinc-clad exterior of the museum, with intersecting window bands.

The windows bear no relationship to the division of floors within the building.

Window patterns.

Libeskind derived the folded shape of the museum from many sources including lines on a map of Berlin connecting important figures in the Jewish cultural history of the city.

View of walls surrounding the Paul Celan Court. Celan was a Jewish poet.

View of walls surrounding the Paul Celan Court.

The south facade of the Holocaust Void (tower), a concrete, freestanding structure connected underground to the museum. A single window is the only source of light for the empty, unheated interior of the tower.

A corner of the Holocaust Void, a concrete, freestanding structure connected underground to the museum.

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	View of the Jewish Museum Berlin from Linderstrassse. The building was designed by Daniel Libeskind and completed in 1999. The concrete columns are a part of the E.T.A. Hoffmann Garden of Exile and Emigration.
	Close-up of the zinc-clad exterior of the museum. The architect determined the pattern of the windows by drawing lines connecting the addresses of Germans and Jews on a map of the surrounding neighborhood.
	The Garden of Exile and Emigration, in front of the south facade of the museum. Forty-nine concrete columns stand at an incline, with trees planted inside. Forty-eight columns, filled with Berlin earth, stand for 1948, the year the nation of Israel was born. The 49th column, filled with earth from Jerusalem, stands for Berlin.
	Close-up of zinc-clad exterior of the museum, with intersecting window bands.
	The windows bear no relationship to the division of floors within the building.
	Window patterns.
	Libeskind derived the folded shape of the museum from many sources including lines on a map of Berlin connecting important figures in the Jewish cultural history of the city.
	View of walls surrounding the Paul Celan Court. Celan was a Jewish poet.
	View of walls surrounding the Paul Celan Court.
	The south facade of the Holocaust Void (tower), a concrete, freestanding structure connected underground to the museum. A single window is the only source of light for the empty, unheated interior of the tower.
	A corner of the Holocaust Void, a concrete, freestanding structure connected underground to the museum.