Jewish Museum, Berlin Germany

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The Jüdisches Museum Berlin by Daniel Libeskind winds like a lightening strike next to the Kollegienhaus. This addition, completed in 2001, is one of Libeskind's most emotional works.

The visitor proceeds through this warped Star of David, starting underground at the pre-World War 2 Jewish museum and finishing at another tunnel to a bare silo with only a thin slice at the top. The visitor contemplates the hopelessness in this dead-end as he hears muffled street noise and feels the radiance from the sun on the rough concrete.

A third corridor descends through a "Garden of Exile" with structural columns twisting diagonally in random directions. The entire building is divided into three Jewish experiences: Continuity with German history, Emigration from Germany, and the Holocaust.

Drawing from Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished Opera "Moses und Aron," Libeskind speaks of a people's identity crisis as originally told in the book of Exodus, with a structure that constructs itself into complementary hexachords.

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Also by Libeskind: Freedom Tower, Royal Ontario Museum, Warsaw Modern Art Museum



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