Jüdisches/ Jewish Museum: The Jewish Museum Berlin was designed by the American architect Daniel Liebeskind and opened as a museum covering two millennia of German Jewish history in 2001. The building, in the form of a zinc-clad thunderbolt, has been considered a very controversial design. More poetic than functional, it tries to create spaces of memory (“des lieux de mémoire”) that evoke the story of the Holocaust through a labyrinthine path.
Jewish Museum, interior
Jewish Museum, exterior
Jewish Museum, exterior
Jewish Museum, interior
Jewish Museum and Berlin Museum
Matthäi Church and Kulturforum
Neue Philharmonie/ New Philharmonic
Neue Nationalgalerie/ New National Gallery
Kulturforum, with Staatsbibliothek and Philharmonie/State Library and Philharmonic Hall: The Kulturforum is among the most important centers for the fine arts in the world. Located in the central Berlin-Tiergarten quarter, it contains the Gemäldegalerie/Painting Gallery, the Neue Nationalgalerie/New National Gallery, the Kunstgewerbemuseum /Museum of Applied Arts along with the Philharmonie/Philharmonic Hall and the Staatsbibliothek/State Library. Begun in the late 1970’s when Berlin was divided, it became a kind of parallel cultural center to the historic Museuminsel located in East Berlin. With striking modern architecture by Mies van der Rohe (Neue Nationalgalerie) and Hans Scharoun (Philharmonie and Staatsbibliothek) among others, it remains an essential cultural node in a unified Berlin.
Technikmuseum/Technology Museum, Landwehrkanal
Jannowitz Center
Technikmuseum/Technology Museum: Opened in 1983 in an old factory off the Landwehr canal, it became the largest technology museum in the world in 2005, with the addition of a new contemporary space.
Instructional Technology Services