Monuments, Testimony and Memory..

Jewish Museum Berlin was located in Berlin, Germany. This museum consists of two parts of the buildings. Kollegienhaus which is the old former courthouse was built is the 18th century. And the new one was built by a well known architect Daniel Libeskind in year of 1999.



In my opinion, I think that Jewish Museum has successfully in commemorating the dead. The Jewish Museum exhibits the social, political and cultural history of Jews in Germany from the 4th century to the present. First of all, Liberkind have created and design the Jewish museum in a straight linear of zigzag form from the thought of all the violent or the rapture history of Jews and Germany. Besides that, Libeskind has also expressed the disappearance of Jewish culture in the city by applying the concepts of absence, emptiness, and invisible. This can be found by ‘The Voids’, which is certain empty rooms that is orchestrated to allow visitor to see but not to enter.



In addition, Libeskind has used three axes which symmetrically arrange, to show out the principal of continuity, axial, and death. The longest roads lead to the ‘stair of continuity’ and to the museum itself. While second leads to ‘Garden of Exile. And third lead to the dead end of ‘Holocaust void’.



National Museum was designed by a local architect, Ho Kok Hoe, in 1959, shortly after Malaya gained independence. National museum is a repository of Malaysia's rich cultural and historical heritage. The museum houses four exhibition galleries featuring Malaysia's history and rich cultural diversity.The architect have design the four exhibition galleries space due to its own period of time.



Prehistory Gallery
The Prehistory Gallery on the first floor showcases the formation of the Malay Archipelago to the findings of numerous important prehistoric archaeological sites in Malaysia. Due to pre-historical period, human were living in cave. That cause the theme of it is darker and mostly decorated with rock and stone.



Malay Kingdoms Gallery
The Early Malay Kingdom Gallery features the existence of the Malay States and highlights the zenith of the Malaccan Empire during the 15th century as centre for the spice trade and the proliferation of Islam. Due to the Early Malay Kingdom period, human will largely dependent by timber. Therefore, the theme of this gallery will mostly decorate with timber.



Colonial Era Gallery
The fall of Malaccan Empire in 1511 to the Portuguese was the start of 446 years of foreign influence, from the Dutch, British and then Japanese. When Colonial Era conquering Malacca, they have use brick to build their castle. Therefore, brick will be chosen to be the theme of this part of gallery.



Malaysia Today
The Malaysia Today Gallery brings visitors to the sights and sounds of the Road towards Independence. As a developed country, lots of high technology devices will used in this gallery.