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The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Muze'on Yisrael, Yerushalayim) was founded in 1965 as Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
's national museum
National museum

A national museum is a museum maintained by a nation....
. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram
Givat Ram

Givat Ram is a neighborhood in central Jerusalem, Israel. The Knesset and Israeli government offices are located in Givat Ram, as are the Israel Museum, one of the four campuses of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Israeli Supreme Court and the Binyanei HaUma convention center....
 neighborhood of Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, near the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel's oldest university.The First Board of Governors included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and Chaim Weizmann....
. The late Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek
Teddy Kollek

Theodor "Teddy" Kollek was mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, as well as founder of the Jerusalem Foundation. Kollek was re-elected five times, in 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983 and 1989....
 was the driving spirit behind its establishment.The Israel Museum is the largest cultural institution in the State of Israel and is ranked among the leading art and archaeology museums in the world.






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The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Muze'on Yisrael, Yerushalayim) was founded in 1965 as Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
's national museum
National museum

A national museum is a museum maintained by a nation....
. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram
Givat Ram

Givat Ram is a neighborhood in central Jerusalem, Israel. The Knesset and Israeli government offices are located in Givat Ram, as are the Israel Museum, one of the four campuses of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Israeli Supreme Court and the Binyanei HaUma convention center....
 neighborhood of Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, near the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel's oldest university.The First Board of Governors included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and Chaim Weizmann....
. The late Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek
Teddy Kollek

Theodor "Teddy" Kollek was mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, as well as founder of the Jerusalem Foundation. Kollek was re-elected five times, in 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983 and 1989....
 was the driving spirit behind its establishment.The Israel Museum is the largest cultural institution in the State of Israel and is ranked among the leading art and archaeology museums in the world. Founded in 1965, the Museum houses encyclopedic collections, including the most extensive holdings of biblical and Holy Land archaeology in the world.

Collections

The museum today includes extensive collections of Judaica, ethnography
Ethnography

Ethnography is a genre of writing that uses fieldwork to provide a descriptive study of human societies. Ethnography presents the results of a holism research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other....
, fine art
Fine art

Fine art describes any art form developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than utility. This type of art is often expressed in the production of art objects using Visual arts and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture, photography and printmaking....
, artifacts
Artifacts

Artifacts may refer to:*Artifacts , a tribal ambient music album by the American artist Steve Roach*Artifacts , a hip-hop duo from New Jersey...
 from Africa, North and South America, Oceania and the Far East, archeology, rare manuscripts, ancient glass and sculpture. A uniquely designed building on the grounds of the museum, the Shrine of the Book
Shrine of the Book

The Shrine of the Book, a wing of the Israel Museum near Givat Ram in western Jerusalem, houses the Dead Sea Scrolls?discovered 1947?56 in 11 caves in and around the Wadi Qumran....
, houses the Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea scrolls

The Dead Sea scrolls consist of roughly 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea....
 and artifacts discovered on Masada
Masada

Masada is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel on top of an isolated rock plateau, or large mesa, on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea....
.

Director

Since 1997, James Snyder, formerly the Deputy Director at the Museum of Modern Art in New York has served as the Anne and Jerome Fischer Director of the Israel Museum. He is currently overseeing the construction of its new entrance, designed by Jamie Carpenter.

Second Temple Era model of Jerusalem

One of the most recent and exciting additions to the Museum is the Second Temple Era model of Jerusalem. The model reconstructs the topography and architectural character of the city as it was prior to 66 CE, the year in which the Great Revolt against the Romans erupted, leading to the eventual destruction of the city and the Temple. Originally constructed on the grounds of Jerusalem’s Holyland Hotel, the model is now a permanent feature of the Museum’s campus, adjacent to the Shrine of the Book

External links

  • at ilMuseums.com