JMB on.tour

If you are inter­ested in a visit, please send an email to ontour@jmberlin.de with the fol­lowing infor­mation:

• School name
• Contact person
• School address
• State
• Type of school
• Interes­ted grade levels
• School email and tele­phone number
• Contact person’s email and tele­phone number

If your school is selec­ted, the on.tour team will send you an email with the confir­mation in the week follow­ing the appli­cation dead­line. You will then also receive the neces­sary infor­mation. A planned visit is consi­dered binding once it has been officially con­firmed by the JMB and the school.

Grade level: 6 to 13 
Number of parti­cipants: max. 30 students 
Length: 3 lesson periods 
Location: a large room e.g. an audi­torium or a gym­nasium (at least 8 x 8 meters) 
How many times: twice in one on.tour day

The mobile exhi­bition conveys know­ledge about Jewish religion and culture and German-Jewish history as well as the present. Topics can include the Torah and Talmud, dietary laws (Kashrut), the Sab­bath (day of rest), Jewish places, the signi­ficance of migration stories for present-day Jewish life in Germany and Jewish pers­pectives on the Holo­caust and forms of remem­brance.

The work­shop revolves around inde­pendent, inter­est-led discovery with the aid of around 40 hands-on exhibits: What does a broken glass, a pack of Fromms con­doms or a soccer shirt have to do with Ju­daism? Dis­cussions with the on.tour faci­litators connect questions to young people’s own lives: How do you watch what you eat? Is there any­thing you don’t eat on principle? What do you want to free your­self from? What langu­ages do you switch between? The museum itself is also part of the dis­cussion: What actually is a Jewish object? What does the Jewish Museum Berlin collect? And what would you donate to a museum or let it ex­hibit?

The faci­litators respond to the indivi­dual needs and interests of each group and adapt the contents to the group’s prior know­ledge and curri­culum. This work­shop takes place twice in suc­cession.

Grade level: 6 to 13 
Number of participants: max. 30 students 
Length: 3 lesson periods 
Location: Classroom 
How many times: max. twice in one on.tour day

Who is a Jew? What is Jewish? And what defines me? The work­shops is centered on artist Yael Reuveny’s film Four Questions, in which she asks Jews about their Jewish identity. The prota­gonists present Jewish life today in a multi­faceted, contradictory and enter­taining way. Parti­cipants discuss their own appro­ach to life and share their opi­nions on the wide-ranging state­ments in the film. In doing so, they recog­nize the diversity of Ju­daism in Ger­many and can reflect on their own stereo­types.

Grade level: 9 to 13 
Number of participants: max. 30 students 
Length: 3 lesson periods 
Location: Classroom 
How many times: max. twice in one on.tour day

Con­tempt for Jewish tradition and the re­jection of Jews have repeatedly led to hate and violence throu­ghout history. Today, Jewish insti­tutions in Germany are under police pro­tection. In this work­shop, we address the complex pheno­menon of anti­semitism by using film case studies that parti­cipants respond to. They discuss the anti­semitic nature of the incidents and ex­change arguments. The parti­cipants’ ideas and expe­riences will be included in the open dis­cussion. The aim is to ex­change perspec­tives and form one’s own opinion, thereby creating an under­standing of what anti­semitism is and how it can present itself. 
 

In JMB on.tour, parti­cipants explore more than forty exhibits that they can touch, look at, listen to and even taste and smell. There is also a diverse array of bio­graphies, photos, docu­ments, quotes and in-depth expla­natory texts. All texts are written in plain lan­guage and have been designed with tactile QR codes that can be used with screen readers. Our trained facil­itators tailor the exhi­bition to partici­pants with disabi­lities or limi­tations in the areas of hearing, seeing, moving and under­standing.

Various advisory boards were invol­ved in deve­loping JMB on.tour.

Students from two Berlin schools served on the school advisory board where they tested the proto­types and provided impor­tant feed­back. The Biesalski School in Dahlem has a special peda­gogical focus on “physical and motor de­velopment” and “autism.” The Refik Veseli School is an integrated secon­dary school in Kreuz­berg.

Experts from the General Associ­ation for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Berlin and the Insti­tute for Reha­bilitation Sciences at Hum­boldt Uni­versity supported JMB on.tour with their knowledge on the Inclu­sion Advisory Board.

Editorial staff at the magazine Ohrenkuss checked the texts for read­ability and, together with the expert Anne Leicht­fuss, trans­lated the texts into plain langu­age.