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The Israel Museum ( Hebrew: מוזיאון ישראל, Muze'on Yisrael, Arabic: متحف إسرائيل) is an art and archaeology museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel 's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world's leading encyclopaedic museums.
Type. Museum. Material. black basalt. Completion date. 1965. Website. [1] The Shrine of the Book ( Hebrew: היכל הספר, Heikhal HaSefer) is a wing of the Israel Museum in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem that houses the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Aleppo Codex, among others.
ANU - Museum of the Jewish People: Tel Aviv: Jewish history: 220,000: Israel Museum: Jerusalem Archaeology, art, sculpture ~1,000,000 (2023) Yad Vashem: Jerusalem (Mount Herzl) Holocaust ~1,000,000 Rockefeller Museum: Jerusalem (East Jerusalem) Archaeology Siebenberg House: Jerusalem Archaeology L. A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art
Yad Vashem (Hebrew: יָד וַשֵׁם; lit. ' a memorial and a name ') is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; echoing the stories of the survivors; honoring Jews who fought against their Nazi oppressors and gentiles who selflessly aided Jews in need; and researching the phenomenon of the Holocaust ...
Herodian Quarter. The Herodian Quarter –Wohl Archaeological Museum is an underground archaeological site and museum situated in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. [1] It exhibits lavish residencies that reflect the high standard of living among the affluent inhabitants of Jerusalem's Upper City during the late Second Temple ...
The Temple Institute, known in Hebrew as Machon HaMikdash ( Hebrew: מכון המקדש ), is an organization in Israel focusing on establishing the Third Temple. Its long-term aims are to build the third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount, on the site occupied by the Dome of the Rock, and to reinstate animal sacrificial worship.
The label "Tower of David" is now commonly used to refer to the Ottoman minaret on the south west side of the citadel (shown as a small red circle on the 1936 map) The three towers - Phasael, Hippicus and Mariamne - as part of the Jerusalem city model from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Tower of David is a historical name given to the northeast ...
An archaeological excavation of the site in 1973, led by a team under IAA's Fanny Vitto, revealed the mosaic and its content, which has been on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem since 1978. Description of mosaic. The mosaic pieces are made of black limestone tesserae contrasted against a white background.