Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Jewish Museum of Europe's largest

Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany is regarded as an "encyclopedia", a showcase, preserve and celebrate everything related to Jews. 
Officially open from 9/2001, the Jewish Museum Berlin is known for a combination of architecture and monumental scale include: ancient buildings, new buildings, garden greenhouse and an academy.

Historic Property 

Time to visit the area if the neck (Kollegienhaus), you will admire the gallery, event room, souvenir shop and enjoy the food at the restaurant Liebermann.


Built in 1735 , initially as Kollegienhaus Court of Justice of the German nobility , was designed by Philip Gerlach , architect famous for works Garnison church in Potsdam .

Historic Property is a two-story building , built in the next three campus square, in the center front , a corner of the main entrance of the museum has mounted armorial Prussia ( leading nations in Empire Germany ) as a metaphor for the wisdom and justice - an enduring traces used for the original purpose of the building - Justice court .

New buildings

Right from its inception , the new building has plenty of mixed opinions . Many travelers said that the hands of the " enchanted " by architect Daniel Libeskind from the 1989 is truly a masterpiece informal , breakthrough creativity and is a work full of wisdom ...

Architect Libeskind himself called " brainchild " of himself as " not a rational matrix and invisible , " but it was really touch on was knocked unconscious and the senses of every traveler when visit every corner , admire the memorabilia or read every piece of information on each of the museum .

The modern architectural elements of the building Libeskind 's zinc surface tiles , garden exile , three axis display on the ups and downs of the interaction of Jews in German society , and the space .

gaps

From ancient building , a staircase leading to the basement through a gap in the concrete as a bridge to the new building .


There are 6 space as the cave runs throughout the new building . With concrete walls , not warm and no air conditioning and the majority had no artificial lighting , the space completely separate from the rest of the building .

Looking down from above , one can clearly see this gap by walls painted black outside . An Israeli sculptor , Menashe Kadishman created 10,000 " leaf fall " - the circular steel sculptures appalled horrified face , covering the entire floor space of one 5 .

Visitors step foot on this space will surely have many emotions and experiences that follow as Daniel Libeskind has said gap " is what can not be displayed as part of the tragic history of the Jews Berlin : Mankind has been reduced to ashes . "

The axis symbol Germany - Jewish

The space travelers passing down the great staircase of the old buildings will see a road ahead - systems made ​​up of three three -axis represents the actual history of Jews in Germany .

The first and longest axis of the overall " Axis Constant " , ancient buildings connected to the main staircase ( Sackler stairs ) leading to the exhibition floor . The architect said shaft is continuously ongoing symbol of the history of Berlin not stop , spindle axis of the remaining two .


" Axis exile " led the outdoors and Gardens exile with the tilted walls and pretty narrow . In this axis , the floor is not flat but slightly sloping . This axis is the trait for life miserable and stigmatized Jews have always lived as wandering around and not have their own country .

Finally, the " Axis of Genocide ," genocide icon Jews to increasingly narrow aisles , dark tower leading to the Jewish Holocaust . Every glass display cabinets wall mounted display two documents or personal belongings of the victims .

Garden exile

A place to make tourists completely disoriented after leaving triaxial logo . The garden consists of 49 square concrete columns that tourists visit will be stuck in a matrix with a sense of instability and amorphous - like what Jews feel when expelled from Germany. But on top of the columns are planted hemp willow , an enduring symbol of hope .

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