Lindenstr 9-14
Entrance through adjoining baroque building, Kreuzberg
Berlin
10969
Mon: 10:00-22:00 Tue-Sun: 10:00-20:00
The idea to establish a Jewish Museum was voiced in 1971, the year in which Berlin's Jewish community commemorated its 300th anniversary. At the community's suggestion, the exhibition "Achievement and Destiny" was displayed in the Berlin Museum. But far greater emphasis was now placed on the history of Berlin's Jewish community, Jewish life before and after 1933, and the role played by a number of important Jewish figures. The museum was conceived of as eloquently reviving an older tradition: that of the museum opened in the Oranienburgerstrasse shortly before Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Housing the Berlin Jewish community's collection of art and Judaica, this museum was shut down by the Gestapo in 1938, its holdings confiscated.
