Jewish Museum Berlin Libeskind Building

I recently visited the Libeskind building that tells about the Holocaust in four different spine-chilling installations.

Even from the outside you get the shivers, just looking at the titanium-zinc façade with the narrow window slits.

American architect Daniel Libeskind called his design “Between the Lines“. He wanted the building to be not only a museum, but also a retelling of the German-Jewish history. It’s difficult to explain, but the museum’s floor plane is based on two lines: the zig-zagging line of the building itself, and an imagined straight line. At the crossings Libeskind has constructed so-called “voids,” empty concrete shafts from the basement to the roof.