This museum complex—which opened in 2001—sits on Berlin’s Lindenstrasse and comprises an old baroque building and a newer addition designed by the Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind.
According to the museum website, Libeskind’s “building zigzags with a titanium-zinc facade and features underground axes, angled walls, and bare concrete ‘voids’ without heat or air-conditioning.” The goal was to recount German-Jewish history in all its complexity, allowing for many interpretations and even the feeling of “insecurity or disorientation.” Libeskind himself called the project “Between the Lines.”
