Between the Lines

The striking zigzag building designed by New York architect Daniel Libeskind is one of Berlin’s most famous landmarks. To mark its 25th anniversary, the Jewish Museum Berlin is dedicating an exhibition to the building and the period in which it was created.

In the summer of 1989, Daniel Libeskind won the competition for the expansion of what was then the Berlin Museum. His design went far beyond the original brief: it combined architecture and Berlin’s history in a novel way and had a lasting impact on the public discourse surrounding remembrance, commemoration, and memory in Germany.

Through drawings and models, the exhibition documents how one of the most influential contemporary museum buildings came into being at the time of German reunification. The collection exhibition demonstrates how Libeskind’s design continues to influence the discourse on the concept of remembrance culture to this day.