Accessibility at the Jewish Museum Berlin

Jewish Museum Berlin

Lindenstr. 9–14

10969 Berlin
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You can reach the museum with the U1, U3, and U6 train lines, as well as the 248, M29, and M41 bus lines. The following stations are located near the Jewish Museum Berlin:

• Hallesches Tor (U1, U3, U6), approx. 500 meters away
• Kochstraße/Checkpoint Charlie (U6), approx. 600 meters away
• Jüdisches Museum Berlin (bus line 248, link to Berlin Public Transit route map), directly in front of the museum building
• Lindenstraße/Oranienstraße bus stop (bus line M29, link to Berlin Public Transit route map), approx. 600 meters away
• Zossener Brücke bus stop (bus line M41, link to Berlin Public Transit route map), approx. 450 meters away

All train stations are equipped with elevators. The Jewish Museum bus stop (bus line 248) in the direction of Alexanderplatz has been moved temporarily due to construction. Because there are trees along the door area, entering and exiting the bus is not fully accessible.

VBB Bus & Train Assistance Service

If you require assistance traveling to the museum, we recommend the free-of-charge VBB Bus & Train Assistance Service (German only) of the Berlin-Brandenburg Transport Association.

Information on broken elevators

The website BrokenLifts provides information on out-of-service elevators at stations in Berlin's local public transit network.

More information at BrokenLifts (German only)

If you arrive by car and have a disabled parking permit, you can use one of two parking spaces located close to the museum. Please place your permit behind the windshield where it is visible. Before visiting, send a brief email to our Visitorsʼ Services (besucherservice@jmberlin.de) to check if the parking spaces are available.

Our core exhibition, ANOHA, as well as other exhibition areas can be visited free of charge, with the exception of temporary exhibitions.

Reduced-price tickets for temporary exhibitions cost 3 € for severely disabled museum visitors. You can receive the reduced price by presenting a disability ID at the ticket counter showing a disability level of at least 50 percent. If your disability ID entitles you to have an accompanying person with you, that person can enter free of charge. All other information on ticket prices can be found on the Planning Your Visit page.

The two floors of the core exhibition offer up their contents with many playful twists:

• At the station Your Name in Hebrew, you can transliterate your name into the Hebrew alphabet and put it down on paper yourself.
• In the room Prayer and Practice, you'll find five views on kosher eating on a shelf with kosher foods.
• The messiah quiz will help you find out if you have the potential to be a messiah.
• A photo booth allows you to transform your face into a painting.
• Emigration games modeled on historical examples demonstrate the difficult paths to emigration that many took during the era of National Socialism.
• Test your strength at the High Striker station.
• In the Hall of Fame, you can stamp a coin for yourself as a souvenir.

But the sense of touch gets plenty of stimulation as well. Tactile models of paintings invite visitors to engage with the works by touch. When visitors touch the reproduction of the heart in the sculpture L’amitié au coeur by Étienne-Maurice Falconet, it tells a story of theft, destruction, and re-emergence.

In order to gain an understanding of the sheer number of anti-Jewish laws passed by the National Socialists, you can feel your way along successive panels of fabric printed with laws, walking their lengths and counting.

A besamim container exudes the smell of the spices traditionally used in the Havdalah ceremony that closes Shabbat. You can hold it in your hands and smell it.

Many stations also use sound to convey their contents. In the Sound Room you can explore the wide variety of Jewish musical styles and sounds by standing under sound domes, touching sound tubes, or sitting in sound booths. Listen in on what makes Shabbat different from any other day. Listen to Holocaust survivors telling about their liberation.

The core exhibition fills two stories and 3,800 square meters. Since the exhibition is very large, we recommend that you select a few topics or a single era to explore during your visit. The JMB App can help you to find a suitable route.

If you must cross Lindenstraße, there is a smooth street crossing to the side of the Libeskind building. Some of the museum exterior retains its historical facade, making the group entrance and the museum garden not accessible.

The entrance area, museum café, and the Glass Courtyard have sufficient seating if you would like to rest.

Borrowing a Wheelchair

You can borrow a wheelchair from the coat check if needed. Please reserve it in advance by contacting besucherservice@jmberlin.de! In this way, you can be sure that a wheelchair is available for you during your visit.

All of the exhibition and event rooms are accessible using any common wheelchair model via ramps or elevators. The same is true for the café. There is an elevator near almost every staircase. Only the stairs to the bathrooms in the basement of the old building do not have an elevator. Accessible bathrooms are available on the ground floor.

The Axes in the basement of the Libeskind building have a gradient of between 2.65 percent (to the stairs) and 3.9 percent (to the Holocaust Tower). They slope to the side by max. 1.9 percent. Unfortunately, the spaces between the steles in the Garden of Exile are too narrow for wheelchairs.

Seating is provided at regular intervals in the core exhibition.

In a wheelchair, you can roll under most of the glass cases, and the interactive exhibits are designed to be used while seated.

Most of the doors can be opened by pressing a button. Only the doors to the Garden of Exile and the Holocaust Tower in the basement of the Libeskind building must be opened by hand. Do you need assistance opening a door? Ask one of our hosts wearing black clothing and a colorfully patterned scarf.

The museum has two accessible bathrooms labeled with a pictogram of a wheelchair. One is located on the ground floor of the historical building next to the stairs; the other is in the basement of the new building. The doors can be opened by pressing a button, the bathrooms are suitable for large wheelchairs, and the buttons are 1.25 meters from the ground. A bell can be rung in case of emergency.

The terrace in front of the academy building is paved. If you are in a self-propelled wheelchair, the path to the entrance is not accessible. In the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy building, all public spaces are accessible.

Twelve tactile models provide information about the building architecture, signage, and layout. The first tactile model is located in the basement of the Libeskind Building. In the JMB App, you can listen to audio legends, which provide additional information as you touch the twelve tactile models. You can download the JMB App free of charge in the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.

In the core exhibition, you will find many objects and stations that you can experience via touch and hearing: inspect a tactile model of a portrait of Albertine Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, listen to Jewish music in the Sound Room, or hold the heart of the sculpture L’amitié au coeur by Étienne-Maurice Falconet in your hands and listen as it tells you its story.