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JMB App

The Jewish Museum Berlin Audio Guide

The JMB app takes you not only through the core exhibition, but into the Museum Garden and also tells you about Daniel Libeskind’s striking architecture. Audios, videos, images, texts, and games convey the museum content. Are you wondering how to view the 3,000 square meter core exhibition in a single visit? The JMB app offers highlights and architecture tours. Choose a tour based on how much time you have and follow our directions to guide you through the museum. Alternatively, you can stroll around freely and select specific items from over 100 stations. And if you you’re not sure where you are, an interactive map offers orientation.

Download JMB App

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We offer the app in eight languages: German, German Sign Language, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew and Russian. The highlights tour is also available in Leichte Sprache (German plain language).

We recommend installing the app on your phone before your visit and streaming the contents while in the museum. Remember to bring your headphones and charge your smartphone battery before your visit.

The picture features screenshots of the new app showing texts, exhibition images and objects.

In addition to audio content, you can read texts, play games, and view videos and pictures in the app; Jewish Museum Berlin, graphics: Verena Blöchl, NOUSdigital

Borrow an Audio Guide at the Museum

For a fee, you can also borrow a device to use the JMB app on. Please pay at the ticket corner.

An App with an Inclusive Approach

We have developed accessible options in the JMB app for visitors with visual impairments, hearing impairments and learning difficulties. Visitors who are blind or have limited vision can use the app with a screen reader. In addition, auditory tactile instructions and inclusive audio descriptions enable a largely barrier-free visit to the museum.

Visitors with hearing impairments are offered a tour with 20 videos in German Sign Language and all audio content as read-along texts.

Visitors with learning difficulties can find 50 audio files in German plain language. The app also comes with a simplified operating mode that automatically uses plain language. 
 

Young woman stands with smartphone and headphones in front of the portrait of Albertine Heine as bride of August Theodor Kaselowsky

The JMB app enriches the exhibition visit with additional offers; Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Funding

With funding provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution by the German Bundestag.

The image shows the label of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Private support makde the further development of the JMB app possible.

Das Bild zeigt das Logo der Friede Springer Stiftung. Das Bild zeigt das Logo und den Schriftzug der Michael Otto Stiftung. The picture shows the logo of the Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin in the U.S.
Colorful glittering curtain in motion

Exhibition Jewish Life in Germany: Past & Present: Features & Programs

Exhibition Webpage
Jewish Life in Germany: Past & Present: Core exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin, since Aug 2020
Guided Tours
Current page: JMB App: Audio guide, available in English, German, German plain language, German Sign Language, French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew and Russian, available for download
Guided Tours for Adults as Individual Visitors or in Groups: Fixed dates or by appointment, on site or digitally, in several languages
Guided Tours and Workshops for School Groups: Appointment, on site or digitally, in several languages
Publications
The JMB Book: History, architecture and core exhibition of the museum, available in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian
Open: JMB Journal #21, with interviews and background information on the exhibition
Digital Content
Thematic Space Torah: Audios and objects on words, writing and language
Musicroom: Playlists with religious and secular music from the core exhibition
Topography of Violence. Antisemitic violence in Germany 1930–1938: Media application from the exhibition’s historical chapter Catastrophe
13 Objects – 13 Stories: Unusual objects from our core exhibition
New Accents: Interview with Cilly Kugelmann, chief curator of the core exhibition
See also
The Libeskind building
History of the museum

Use Cases: The JMB’s Digital Offerings and Projects (5)

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