Museumsportal Berlin

Facilities

Vermietung
Our exclusive event rooms offer diverse possibilities: Be it banquet, reception, or conference, we would be delighted to advise you and take charge of the organization of your event at the Museum. All rooms are located in the baroque "Kollegienhaus" (built 1734/35) and next to the renowned new building designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind. Equipped with the latest in technology, our rooms provide an authentic historical setting for your event.

Restaurant
Restaurant & Café Liebermanns
Liebermanns is located in the Jewish Museum Berlin and is open to both visitors of the museum and external restaurant patrons.

Liebermanns's aromatic cuisine interprets and adapts traditional Jewish cooking. While kashrut is generally respected, omitting pork, shellfish and crustaceans, meals are not kosher. Offering international Jewish as well as Mediterranean delicacies, Liebermanns is the place for a quick snack between two exhibition sections or a relaxing coffee break with homemade cake and cookies after a museum visit.

Museumsshop
From specialized literature to silk scarves - the Munich company Cedon ensures that the Jewish Museum Berlin's shop has something to offer for everybody.

Bibliothek
The Jewish Museum Berlin's library is a scientific reference library currently comprising 60.000 media. Its holdings can be researched online and viewed in the Reading Room.

Alongside primary and research literature on German-Jewish history, culture, art, religion, and philosophy, the collection also includes historical magazines and current periodicals. An extensive collection of German-Jewish periodicals is available on microfiche and microfilm.

Reading Room:
The archive and library Reading Room of the Jewish Museum Berlin is open to the public. Opening hours are:
Monday and Wednesday, 12 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tel: +49 (0)30 259 93 560
Fax: +49 (0)30 259 93 441
bibliothek@jmberlin.de

Archiv
Leo Baeck Institute Archive

The New York Leo Baeck Institute Archive set up a dependency at the Jewish Museum Berlin when it opened, providing access to one of the largest archives on German-Jewish history in Germany.

Named after Rabbi Leo Baeck, one of German Jewry's most significant representatives, the institute – founded in New York, London, and Jerusalem in 1955 – is devoted to researching the history of German Jewry since the Enlightenment. Its New York Archive holds an extensive collection: Municipal files, personal documents, correspondence, attestations to religious, social, cultural, intellectual, political, and business life reflect the whole spectrum of German-Jewish existence.

Approximately a third of the New York holdings are available on over 2,500 microfilms at the Jewish Museum Berlin Reading Room. Among them are bequests of prominent German Jews and a collection of over 1,300 memoirs. The collections that can be viewed in Berlin are listed in the Leo Baeck Institute's online catalog (http://lbi.org/mclinkpage.htm). Prior registration is necessary.

The microfilming of the New York collections is generously sponsored by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future and the German Research Foundation as part of their programs to promote scientific library services and information systems.