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Pictures Make People

A Museum Visit for People with Dementia and their Companions (in German)

Experience a cozy and inspiring afternoon in the Jewish Museum Berlin! On entry, we’ll invite you to have coffee and freshly baked challah. Challah (Hebrew for braided yeast bread) is eaten on Friday evening, which is when the Shabbat begins according to the Jewish calendar. 
 

Tue, 26 Aug + Fri, 17 Okt + Thu 20 Nov + Mon 8 Dec 2025, 2 pm

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The Old Building is marked in green

Where

Old Building, ground level, “Meeting Point” in the foyer
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin

While enjoying this culinary treat, we will get to know each other, handle some objects and share what Friday evening means for the participants, and which bread is the most delicious.

Afterwards, we will visit the exhibition room Pictures Make People and look at three paintings from the nineteenth century together. There, we will talk about “Chess in the Salon” and “Celebratingrespectively”.

On the topic of “Chess in the Salon”, we will plunge into the Berlin of the nineteenth century, learn about the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and salon culture, and question the role of the game of chess. The paintings on the topic “Celebrating” allow us to dip into a private family celebration and an extravagant festival.

The exhibition visit will be enhanced with musical accents and the opportunity to handle physical objects. Seating will be made available in the exhibition.

The event is being held in cooperation with the Alzheimer Gesellschaft Berlin e.V.

Collage: A beige jug with a lid is disassembled into larger individual parts. A black and gold-colored plant tendril grows from an upper part of the jug. A face appears in profile on the right-hand side (as part of the jug).

Porcelain (exhibition copy), Izhar Patkin (born 1955), USA, New York 2000, Hand drawing, watercolor, Jewish Museum Berlin, inv. no.: Deko/816/0, photo: Roman März Further information on this collage can be found in our online collections

Schwarz-weiß-rotes Schriftlogog der Alzheimer Gesellschaft e.V.
A pair of hands feeling a model of a synagogue

Accessibility at the Jewish Museum Berlin: An overview

General Information
Accessibility at the Jewish Museum Berlin: Directions, visiting the museum, audience-specific
Simple English: Information about the Jewish Museum Berlin and its website in Simple English
Sign Language Information and offers in German Sign Language
Accessibility Statement: Information on areas in which accessibility is still lacking, options for giving feedback, and the arbitration service
Tours & Workshops
JMB App: Including audio tours, German plain language, German Sign Language, optimized for screen readers, features touching instructions for tactile paintings, and audio texts for reading along
Access Program Tours by appointment and with fixed dates
See also
Jewish Places: Information about Jewish sites in Easy Read (German)

Where, when, what?

  • WhenTue, 26 Aug + Fri, 17 Okt + Thu 20 Nov + Mon 8 Dec 2025, 2 pm
  • Duration2.5 hours
  • Where Old Building, ground level, “Meeting Point” in the foyer
    Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
    See location on map
  • Entry fee

    6 €, reduced rate 3 €, accompanying person free of charge
    Reserve Online Ticket

  • InformationT +49 (0)30 259 93 305
    visit@jmberlin.de 
    Please register all participants with personal requirements.

Public Tours: Current Dates and Topics of our Guided Tours (17)

Guided Tours: Access Program (7)

  • Access Program

    Would you like to visit our permanent exhibition and have special needs? Choose a program from our access offers.

  • The picture shows three teenagers, one of them using a wheel chair. They are squeezed in between blocks of concrete and looking upwards.

    German Jews’ Reactions to National Socialism

    “The Museum Made Easy:” Bookable Project Days in Plain Language (in German)

    Workshop
    By appointment

  • Exhibition view: one visitor stands under a sound tube, another sits in a sound bunk

    Judaism Aloud

    An audible and palpable tour for visitors with blindness or limited vision

    Guided Tour
    By appointment

  • A baking sheet with four yeast plaits sprinkled with sesame seeds and poppy seeds.

    The Museum Made Easy

    An inclusive tour in German plain language (for school groups ages 13 to 19)

    Guided Tour
    By appointment

  • Spice boxes designed in the shape of silver flowers.

    Shabbat

    For students ages 11 or older 

    Workshop
    By appointment

  • Collage: A beige jug with a lid is disassembled into larger individual parts. A black and gold-colored plant tendril grows from an upper part of the jug. A face appears in profile on the right-hand side (as part of the jug).

    Pictures Make People

    A museum visit for people with dementia and their companions (in German)

    Guided Tour
    Fri 17 Oct + Thu 20 Nov + 8 Dec 2025, 2 pm

  • Exhibition view: one visitor stands under a sound tube, another sits in a sound bunk

    Judaism Aloud

    A public audible and palpable tour for visitors with blindness or limited vision

    Guided Tour
    Wed 29 Oct + 26 Nov 2025, 3 pm

  • Long white paper banners with text hang from the ceiling interrupted by showcases, in the background stands a blonde woman

    Katastrophe

    A guided tour in German sign language

    Guided Tour
    By appointment

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