Israel Museum

Geolocation on the map: History

• The museum was created in 1965 by the Mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek.

• Monday, July 26, 2010: reopening to the public throughout the museum that year was largely closed for renovations for three years.

Remarkable elements

The museum consists of several distinct parts:

• the Model of Jerusalem in the Second Temple period (in) (which was until 2006 in the grounds of the hotel Holyland )
• The Shrine of the Book.
• the children's ward with exhibitions, especially toys, and educational workshops and events.
• the garden of modern sculpture Billy Rose, whose many works of famous artists: a mobile Calder , statues of Maillol , Rodin , Bourdelle , Picasso , Lipchitz , David Smith and vertebrae of Henry Moore.

vertebrae Moore

Sculpture at the Israel Museum

Yaakov Agam

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External Links

• The website of the Israel Museum
• A day at the Israel Museum

See also

• Shrine of the Book

• Israel portal
• Portal museums
• Archaeology portal