
Guided Tour & Brunch
Accompanying the exhibition Defiance: Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era
After a 90-minute guided tour through the exhibition Defiance: Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era, a brunch in our museum café is on the program – exchange your impressions over various delicacies of Israeli cuisine!
Sun, 27 Jul & 24 Aug & 14 Sep & 12 Oct & 2 Nov 2025, starting 10:15 am

Where
Old Building, ground level, “Meeting Point” in the Glass Courtyard
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
The exhibition reveals the important role that Jewish women designers played in German society’s process of emancipation and modernization in the early twentieth century—as women, as Jews, and as artists.
Beaded bag, seat cushion, marionette, a hat: around 300 works and over 60 female designers are presented, their forgotten artistic achievements and biographies made visible. The tour presents examples of the courage and strength with which the women fought for outstanding positions in their respective fields until the National Socialist regime destroyed their careers and lives.

Emmy Roth, coffee and tea service, Berlin 1931, silver, embossed, horn; Jewish Museum Berlin, inv. no. 2010/143/0, photo: Jens Ziehe

Defiance: Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era
- Exhibition Webpage
- Defiance: Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era (11 Jul to 23 Nov 2025): visual and auditive insights into the exhibition themes and information in German Sign Language
- Publications
- Exhibition catalog: 2025, in German
- Digital Content
- Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era: All biographies at a glance
- Jewish Places: Information on the designers’ work and study locations on our interactive map
- Puppet Show, Menu Card, Children's Book: Digital copies accompanying the exhibition (in German)
- Paper doll based on a costume design by Dodo (1907–1998): Do it yourself – create your own movable paper doll!
- Fashion paper doll based on designs by Irene Saltern (1911–2005): Do it yourself – dress your own fashion paper doll!
- Beaded bracelet based on a design by Emma Trietsch (1876–1933): Do it yourself – make your own thread bracelet!
- Do you know Eva Samuel?: How the research for the exhibition took off
- Small Puppets – Strong Women: community project accompanying the exhibition (in German)
- Guided Tours
- Public Tour in German: tour with fixed dates
- Public Tour in English: tour with fixed dates
- Current page: Guided Tour & Brunch: tour with fixed dates
- Bookable Tour for Groups and Schools: tour by appointment
- Accompanying Events
- Exhibition Opening: Thu, 10 Jul 2025, 7 pm (exhibition open to visitors from 5 pm)
- Pioneering women of the 1920s – artistic research from the Modeschule Berlin at the JMB: Public presenation, Thu 17 Jul 2025, 2pm
- Summer Party at the JMB with free admission, workshops and more – Sun, 20 Jul 2025, 2 pm
- Creative Love! Long Night of Museums – Sun, 30 Aug 2025, starting 6 pm
- See also
- Jewish Women Ceramists from Germany after 1933: Online feature on Google Arts & Culture, in German
Public Tours: Current Dates and Topics of our Guided Tours (7)