World Jewish News

The Museum Awaits its Four Millionth Visitor and Goes on Tour to 25 Schools.

The Jewish Museum Berlin expects its four millionth visitor since it opened in September 2001 this Sunday 10 June. A particularly pleasing aspect of the high visitor numbers is that over 1 million of these visitors were children and young people aged between 6 and 18 years. The Museum hopes to reach more young people by going "on.tour" to several federal states from 11 June to 27 July 2007. Museum guides with both thematic and didactic training and a tour bus designed for the purpose will tour five schools in North Rhine Westfalia, Rhineland Palatinate, Bremen, Thuringia, and Bavaria. In the schoolyard and the classrooms, they invite the secondary school pupils to discuss German-Jewish history and to consider Jewish identity in Germany. In its luggage, the on.tour team has a mobile exhibition for the schoolyard and iPods on which the young people can listen to Jews remembering their childhood and youth in Germany after 1945.
In visiting the schools, the Museum hopes to encourage teachers to cover German-Jewish history in their lessons. W. Michael Blumenthal expressed a further aim of "on.tour – The JMB Tours Schools" as follows: "Every school pupil in Germany should have visited the Jewish Museum Berlin at least once before they leave school."

Источник: juedisches-museum-berlin.de