Resource #8: Jewish Museum, Berlin
Site Name: Jewish Museum,
URL: http://www.jmberlin.de/ in German or http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/homepage-EN.php in English
Owner: The Jewish museum
Type of Resource: Information on Jewish life over the centuries, exhibits about the Holocaust. Museum collection: Primary source
Description: This site gives a lot of information about the Jewish museum in Berlin. The museum also has a large on-line collection of sources.
Uses: This is a great place to go to find out more about Jewish life over the centuries. It also has a fantastic exhibit about the Holocaust. The museum has a large collection of artifacts, and has prepared many educational lessons for teachers, students and children. Following the founding of the Jewish Museum Berlin as an independent federal institution in the year 2001, the holdings of the Jüdische Abteilung des Berlin Museums were handed over to the Jewish Museum Berlin Foundation. At the same time the collection mandate was extended to cover not just Berlin's Jewish history, but the history of Jews in the whole of Germany. The archive and library Reading Room of the Jewish Museum Berlin is open to the public.
Usefulness: This resource can be used by teachers and students wanting to do research about Jews in Germany or preparing lesson plans on this subject ( http://www.jmberlin.de/ksl/was_gibts/was_gibts_EN.php).
Quality: The quality of this website is excellent.
Authorship: Jewish Museum
Point of View or Bias: none
Referral to Other Sources: none
Verifiability: Jewish Museum Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Museum_BerlinCurrency: 2011.http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/projects/show-all/jewish-museum-berlin/
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 1 accessibility errors.
URL: http://www.jmberlin.de/ in German or http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/homepage-EN.php in English
Owner: The Jewish museum
Type of Resource: Information on Jewish life over the centuries, exhibits about the Holocaust. Museum collection: Primary source
Description: This site gives a lot of information about the Jewish museum in Berlin. The museum also has a large on-line collection of sources.
Uses: This is a great place to go to find out more about Jewish life over the centuries. It also has a fantastic exhibit about the Holocaust. The museum has a large collection of artifacts, and has prepared many educational lessons for teachers, students and children. Following the founding of the Jewish Museum Berlin as an independent federal institution in the year 2001, the holdings of the Jüdische Abteilung des Berlin Museums were handed over to the Jewish Museum Berlin Foundation. At the same time the collection mandate was extended to cover not just Berlin's Jewish history, but the history of Jews in the whole of Germany. The archive and library Reading Room of the Jewish Museum Berlin is open to the public.
Usefulness: This resource can be used by teachers and students wanting to do research about Jews in Germany or preparing lesson plans on this subject ( http://www.jmberlin.de/ksl/was_gibts/was_gibts_EN.php).
Quality: The quality of this website is excellent.
Authorship: Jewish Museum
Point of View or Bias: none
Referral to Other Sources: none
Verifiability: Jewish Museum Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Museum_BerlinCurrency: 2011.http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/projects/show-all/jewish-museum-berlin/
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 1 accessibility errors.