Sights to See: Jewish Museum Berlin/Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jewish Museum Berlin/Jüdisches Museum Berlin  Europe's largest Jewish museum is housed in a stunning zinc-plated building nicknamed "the silver lightning bolt." Interior spaces are intended to disorient visitors, and the empty Holocaust Void in the center represents the world’s great loss from that event. Still, the museum can at times feel cozy. Exhibits center on Judaism and Jewish life, the Holocaust, and the post-World War II rebuilding of Jewish life in Germany.

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