Jewish Museum Berlin

Daniel Libeskind – Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany, 1989-1998

The Jewish Museum Berlin (German: Jüdisches Museum Berlin) is the largest Jewish museum in Europe, located in Berlin. In two buildings, one of which is an extension specially designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, a permanent collection and various temporary exhibitions tell the story of two millennia of Jewish history in Germany.

The building that houses the museum is significantly different from the usual typology of museums: it does not respond to any criterion of functionality since the guideline followed for the realization of the project was to tell the story of the Jews, in particular the Jews in Germany. The building itself can be considered a work of art, since it mixes architecture and sculpture.

Libeskind has named his project between the lines (between the lines) and where the two lines intersect, empty areas, or voids, are formed that run throughout the entire museum.

The building seen from above has the shape of a zigzag line and for this reason it has been nicknamed blitz, which in German means lightning. The shape of the building resembles a decomposed and destructured Star of David. The building is entirely covered with zinc plates and the facades are crossed by very thin and elongated windows, more similar to gashes or wounds than to real windows, arranged randomly.

Source: Wikipedia  https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Ebraico_di_Berlino