Munich Sights

Jüdisches Museum München

#413 of 413 things to do in Munich

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Lonely Planet review for Jüdisches Museum München

Many decades in the planning, the Jüdisches Museum München is a major undertaking that attempts to come to terms with one of the most sinister chapters in the city's history. Contained within a modernist glass cube, the exhibits aim to show in a balanced, sensitive fashion the Jewish place in Munich's cultural landscape over the ages, from medieval times through to the horrors of the Third Reich and today's slow regeneration. Next door stands the quite forbidding, stone-clad new synagogue, built to finally replace the Romanesque synagogue that was razed by the Nazis in 1938.

 

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    Hareliadi does not recommend this,

    After reading an article regarding this museum, I went with my mother there, and we were very disappointed.
    The building was very nice, but the visit was mainly for the show.
    The museum exhibits were very low for my taste, and of 3-story, only one floor had an explanation in English. The rest of the museum was only in German, which was not possible for us to understand too much and to be impressed with what was presented there.
    It seemed that the purpose of the museum was to demonstrate that over the years Jews took part in the culture of Germany, in which very little reference to Judaism as a religion, tradition and culture. Moreover, it seems that Germany eliminated from us the Jewish experience.

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