Last Chance to Tour Jewish Museum Berlin Scant few days remain to catch a tour of a vast, vacant new museum. Within the next few weeks, architectural tours will cease so that a 15-month installation of the permanent exhibitions can take place. JMB's official opening date is now September 9 or 10, 2001.
Projections estimate half a million or more visitors each year when the museum is completed.
The opening was postponed from October of this year so that the infrastructure can be upgraded to support larger crowds than originally expected. Thus, we have to figure out which refurbishments to do first, without hindering tours. When complete, it will be the largest Jewish museum in Europe. The permanent, multimedia exhibition will reveal 2,000 years of German-Jewish history, from the high points of a thriving, contributing culture, to the low points of the brutal Holocaust years. The new building is only accessible to visitors through the Kollegienhaus, the former Berlin City Museum.