Israel Museum

The Israel Museum is a national museum in Jerusalem with collections spanning archaeology, fine art, Jewish culture, and the history of the Land of Israel.

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Shrine of the Book: A museum wing in Jerusalem housing the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient manuscripts. This landmark wing displays some of the museum’s best-known archaeological holdings.
Dead Sea Scrolls: Ancient Jewish manuscripts found in caves near Qumran, dating from the third century BCE to the first century CE. The Shrine of the Book was built to display these manuscripts and related finds.
Teddy Kollek: An Israeli politician who served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993. Kollek helped establish the museum and championed its development.
Conservation and restoration of cultural property: The preservation and repair of objects and sites with historical, artistic, or cultural value. Specialists conserve the museum’s archaeological objects, manuscripts, and artworks.
Yad Vashem: Israel’s official memorial and research institution for the Holocaust. It is a major Jerusalem institution with a distinct but complementary historical mission.
Model of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period: A scale model depicting Jerusalem around 66 CE, before the Roman destruction of the Second Temple. The model makes the ancient city’s setting tangible within the museum’s historical collections.
Aleppo Codex: A medieval Hebrew Bible manuscript that is a major witness to the Masoretic text. The museum preserves and displays much of this manuscript, a central object in its Jewish collections.
Abba Khoushy: An Israeli politician and mayor of Haifa who helped establish cultural institutions in Israel. Khoushy was among the public figures involved in founding the museum.
Museum exhibition: A planned public presentation of objects or ideas in a museum or gallery. Exhibitions organize the museum’s varied collections into historical and artistic narratives.
Tower of David Museum: A museum in Jerusalem’s citadel presenting the city’s history. It offers another interpretation of Jerusalem’s history, complementing the Israel Museum’s collections.