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Catastrophe

Guided Tour

This tour presents the core exhibition with a focus on the historical epoch room Catastrophe. An introduction to the museum building’s iconic architecture is part of this exhibition tour.

Hundreds of decrees and measures were issued against Jews between 1933 and 1945. Printed on large flags suspended from the ceiling, they form an installation that makes the extent, completeness, and perfidy of the Nazi regime’s bureaucratically decreed Antisemitism spatially perceptible. Opposite it is a map projection that spatially and temporally pinpoints violent attacks on Jewish people, shops, and community facilities, thus showing another central aspect of persecution.

By appointment

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin

Where

Jewish Museum Berlin
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin

Where, when, what?

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

View of the epoch room Catastrophe; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exhibits from our family collections illustrate attempts to flee Germany. Striking objects such as “Judensterne” (Jewish Stars), passport photos of Jewish forced laborers from the Berlin firm Ehrich & Graetz, and personal documents allow insights into biographies and raise questions: Why was the escape not always successful? How did Jewish resistance make itself known?

Interactions with the exhibition allow room for individual exploration of the subject and space for group discussions.

Opened album with pictures of the Chicago skyline, a skyscraper and a painted head with feather decoration, and handwritten text

Album for the departure of Margot (1913-2010) and Ernst Rosenthal (1898-1971), Bruno Heidenheim (died 1940), Chemnitz, 1936; Jewish Museum Berlin, donation by Karin and Steve Rosenthal, photo: Roman März

Where, when, what?

  • WhenTour by appointment
  • Duration60 or 90 minutes
  • Where Jewish Museum Berlin
    Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
    See location on map

  • Cost per group 60 min (without architecture) 35 € for school groups
    50 € for adults reduced rate
    100 € for adults

    Cost per group 90 min (including architecture)45 € for school groups
    60 € for adults reduced rate
    150 € for adults

    Booking requestFor groups we offer guided tours on your desired date. Please contact us at least 6 weeks before your desired date for this service.  Booking request

    ContactT +49 (0)30 259 93 305 (Mon–Fri, 10 am–4 pm) visit@jmberlin.de

    Number of participants up to 15

    Please noteThis tour is appropriate either for adults or for school groups ages 15 to 19.

    Languages We generally offer this tour in German, English and German Sign Language. If you would like to request it to be held in French, Italian, Hebrew, or Simple German, please contact us and we will confirm whether this is possible for your desired date and time.

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  • 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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