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Tastmodell des Gemäldes „Porträt Albertine Mendelssohn-Bartholdy“ auf einem Tisch in der Ausstellung.

Tactile model in the core exhibition; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März

Inclusion at the JMB

Our Museum is Strengthening its Organizational Development with a Focus on Diversity and Participation.

Inclusion is one of four strategic goals of the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB). In addition to our existing inclusive programs, we aim to build museum-wide awareness of inclusion and diversity and to integrate their implementation into our everyday museum practice.

A pair of hands feeling a model of a synagogue

Accessibility at the Jewish Museum Berlin: An overview

General Information

Tours & Workshops

  • JMB App: Including audio tours, German plain language, German Sign Language, optimized for screen readers, features touching instructions for tactile paintings, and audio texts for reading along
  • Access Program Tours by appointment and with fixed dates

See also

Jewish Places: Information about Jewish sites in Easy Read (German)

The JMB is Part of the PRISMA Program

Following a successful application, the JMB was selected to participate in the “PRISMA – Program to Strengthen Diversity and Cultural Participation in Museums”, an initiative of the Kulturstiftung der Länder (Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States). This marks a further important step toward anchoring inclusion and diversity in our long-term strategic priorities.

The 15-month program will include workshops, individual consultations, peer-to-peer networking and a conference series. It offers us the opportunity to further develop our strategic process toward becoming a diversity and inclusion-oriented institution. We look forward to working with 14 other participating museums from across Germany to define specific goals and practical next steps.

PRISMA

The acronym stands for participation, resilience, inclusion, solidarity, multiple perspectives, and agility
More on the program at kulturstiftung.de/prisma/ (in German)

Guided Tours: Access Program (9)

  • Access Program

    Would you like to visit our permanent exhibition and have special needs? Choose a program from our access offers.

  • Collage: A beige jug with a lid is disassembled into larger individual parts. A black and gold-colored plant tendril grows from an upper part of the jug. A face appears in profile on the right-hand side (as part of the jug).

    Pictures Make People

    A museum visit for people with dementia and their companions (in German)

    Guided Tour
    Thu 12 Mar + Wed 13 May 2026, 2 pm

  • Exhibition view: one visitor stands under a sound tube, another sits in a sound bunk

    Judaism Aloud

    An audible and palpable tour for visitors with blindness or limited vision (in German)

    Guided Tour
    18 Mar 2026, 3 pm

  • Visualization of an audio track as a waveform (pale red amplitudes on a black background).

    Listening to History. Claude Lanzmann's Interviews on the Holocaust

    An Audio Tour for Blind and Sighted Visitors (in German)

    Guided Tour
    Thu 26 Mar 2026, 3 pm

  • Eine Person betrachtet eine Reihe von der Decke herabhängender langer Banden mit Schrift darauf

    Catastrophe

    Public Tour in German Sign Language (DGS)

    Guided Tour
    Sun 19 Apr 2026, 11 am

  • Long white paper banners with text hang from the ceiling interrupted by showcases, in the background stands a blonde woman

    Katastrophe

    A guided tour in German sign language

    Guided Tour
    By appointment

  • The picture shows three teenagers, one of them using a wheel chair. They are squeezed in between blocks of concrete and looking upwards.

    German Jews’ Reactions to National Socialism

    “The Museum Made Easy:” Bookable Project Days in Plain Language (in German)

    Workshop
    By appointment

  • A baking sheet with four yeast plaits sprinkled with sesame seeds and poppy seeds.

    The Museum Made Easy

    An inclusive tour in German plain language (for school groups ages 13 to 19)

    Guided Tour
    By appointment

  • Spice boxes designed in the shape of silver flowers.

    Shabbat

    For students ages 11 or older 

    Workshop
    By appointment

  • Exhibition view: one visitor stands under a sound tube, another sits in a sound bunk

    Judaism Aloud

    An audible and palpable tour for visitors with blindness or limited vision

    Guided Tour
    By appointment

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