Israel Museum

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The Israel Museum is open seven days a week.  Kids age 17 & under are free on Tuesdays and certain holidays.  There is one day in Sukkot when everyone is free.


The Shrine of the Book Exhibit

This structure outside the Shrine of the Book exhibit represents the shape of the top of the clay jar in which the first Dead Sea Scrolls were found.  It also represents the sons of light.

If you turn 180 degrees from the previous structure, this is what you'll see.  The black stone wall is said to represent the sons of darkness.

The Shrine of the Book exhibit displays a portion of the Isaiah scroll.  No photos are allowed inside the exhibit, but I think it is well since the awe of seeing objects from thousands of years ago is too great for words to describe!

You can even find two plates of charred dates and a few scroll fragments--including the Aleppo Codex--in other parts of the exhibit.


Model of Jerusalem in the Time of the Romans

This model of Jerusalem during the time of the Second Temple was built in the 1960's at the Holyland Hotel.  In 2006 it was restored and moved to the Israel Museum, where it still stands today.  The scale of the model is 1:50.

View of the model from the west side.

The second temple.

The Antonia Fortress.  Herod the Great lived here until his palace was finished.

The Theater

Home of Huldah the prophetess, mentioned in 2 Kings 22:14 and 2 Chronicles 34:22.


The Wishing Tree


The Wishing Tree
  

Boxes of yarn to tie on the tree.


Art

Jewelry--rings and cross necklaces, some dating back two thousand years ago.

A mosaic with the menorah and a shofar.

Twenty-one clay birds in a half-rectangle.

Animal-shaped vessel (see inscription).

A beautiful jar... I don't remember where it was from or what it was for.  I just liked the look of it and snapped a photo.

Menorah

Another piece of art made with string, mounted up on one of the walls.

A flock of birds made from pine cones and pine needles.

In the "wireless" exhibit

Another piece of art mounted on a wall.

"The Flow", one of my favorite pieces of art on exhibit!


Ancient Coins

There were SOOO many coins I couldn't get a photo of all of them.  These three below are my favorites:






Jokes










The Museum was so large we only covered about two areas (if that much at all) of it.  We'll surely be visiting again!  The time was very worthwhile.

Comments

  1. reneeOctober 5, 2016 at 3:38 AM

    The exhibit is one-of-a-kind and the model is quite remarkable.
    Thanks for the small display of artwork at the museum. Fascinating!
    I hope you do find the time to go back. We had to do that but it took years in-between visits to the Land.

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