This model of the Jewish Museum in Berlin is a Schreiber- Bogen kit. We visited this very modern museum on our 2011 Cathedralquest to Central Europe. For details of our time exploring this unique building, please look at my webpage for this day- CATHEDRAL QUEST Central Europe 2011 day 4 Berlin.
The Jewish Museum designed by American Architect Daniel Libeskind, who redeveloped New York’s World Trade Center site, opened its doors in 2001. The very modern building with zinc-paneling creates a connection between the museum’s themes and its architecture. Libeskind has dubbed his design “Between the Lines,” a title which reflects the tensions of German-Jewish history.
The model was very easy to build as it consisted only of plain walls folded to match the footprint and a flat roof- no little dormers. All of the markings on the walls and the roof are windows.
There was an option of constructing what is known as the 49 pillars of the Axis of Exile as one piece or 49 small pillars – see photo #3. I chose to build the individual pillars because of my emotional association with the Axis of Exile. Each pillar extends about 7 feet below the ground level. One enters into this area from a lower level of the Museum. The bases of the slightly slanted 49 columns, lined by a walkway floor that is very uneven. The object is to walk around these columns. My wife and I soon became very disoriented and dizzy and had to leave that area. Again that experience and a photo are on that Cathedralquest page.
Another emotional experience was being locked in the light colored tower next to the columns on the model. The tower was called the Axis of the Holocaust. The brown colored line on the upper right corner of the model was a small slit window, the only light in the tower. Again I call your attention to our experience on my webpage CATHEDRAL QUEST Central Europe 2011 day 4 Berlin.
The Jewish Museum designed by American Architect Daniel Libeskind, who redeveloped New York’s World Trade Center site, opened its doors in 2001. The very modern building with zinc-paneling creates a connection between the museum’s themes and its architecture. Libeskind has dubbed his design “Between the Lines,” a title which reflects the tensions of German-Jewish history.
The model was very easy to build as it consisted only of plain walls folded to match the footprint and a flat roof- no little dormers. All of the markings on the walls and the roof are windows.
There was an option of constructing what is known as the 49 pillars of the Axis of Exile as one piece or 49 small pillars – see photo #3. I chose to build the individual pillars because of my emotional association with the Axis of Exile. Each pillar extends about 7 feet below the ground level. One enters into this area from a lower level of the Museum. The bases of the slightly slanted 49 columns, lined by a walkway floor that is very uneven. The object is to walk around these columns. My wife and I soon became very disoriented and dizzy and had to leave that area. Again that experience and a photo are on that Cathedralquest page.
Another emotional experience was being locked in the light colored tower next to the columns on the model. The tower was called the Axis of the Holocaust. The brown colored line on the upper right corner of the model was a small slit window, the only light in the tower. Again I call your attention to our experience on my webpage CATHEDRAL QUEST Central Europe 2011 day 4 Berlin.
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