About the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Israel Museum is the largest cultural institution in the State of Israel and is ranked among the world’s leading art and archaeology museums. Founded in 1965, the Museum houses encyclopedic collections, including works dating from prehistory to the present day, in its Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Jewish Art and Life Wings, and features the most extensive holdings of biblical and Holy Land archaeology in the world....More...
CNN December 21, 2012
Fred Pleitgen
King Herod exhibit in Israel
Times of Israel - December 22, 2012
Kristen Hansen
YMCA kids play at peace in Israel Museum
Art of the Times (LA Times) - 2012-2013
Sara Evans
The Heart of a Nation
Haaretz - December 17, 2012
Danna Harman
Israel Museum hires celebrity tour guides for the evening
Jewish News One - December 8, 2012
Jordana Miller
Exhibition gives new insight into Hasidic community
Art Daily - December 19, 2012
Four new exhibitions at the Israel Museum showcase wide range of styles and media
Hadassah Magazine - December, 2012
Elin Schoen Brockman
The Arts: More Than a Full Circle
Midnight East - December 20, 2012
Ayelet Dekel
Israel Hershberg Exhibition Opens at the Israel Museum
Haaretz - November 27, 2012
Yuval Saar
Judaica's Contribution to Nation-
Tablet Magazine - November 15, 2012
Menachem Kaiser
Hasidism, in Living Color
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - November 11, 2012
Hans-Christian Rössler
Kein Alter Hut
Art Media Agency - November 7, 2012
Books and Readers at the Israel Museum
TVR+ (Romanian) - November 5, 2012
Aura Dobre
Ambasadorul de la Muzeon (Iuju Orenstaein)
DR Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) - October, 29, 2012
Hanne Foighel
Ultraortodokse jøder udstilles på museum
The Times of Israel - October, 28, 2012
Jessica Steinberg
The capital's artistic wake-up event
Tablet Magazine - October, 25, 2012
Elin Schoen Brockman
Angels in Judaica
BAR - October 23, 2012
Jerusalem of Gold
New York Magazine - October, 21, 2012
The History-Loving, Bike-Riding Retirees: Israel
The Times of Israel - October, 2, 2012
Jessica Steinberg
Easy Living in the Sacred Space of the Sukkah
BBC News - September 15, 2012
Yolande Knell
Curiosity draws Israelis to Hasidic Jewry exhibition
Bloomberg - September 3, 2012
Gwen Ackerman
Hasidic Show Draws Crowds Amid Political Debate in Israel
LeMonde.fr - Septembre 2, 2012
Véronique Falez
Le monde à part des hassidim
Jforum.fr - Septembre 4, 2012
Le monde à part des hassidim
Haaretz - Aug 28, 2012
Ellie Armon Azoulay
Father-daughter exhibit stars at Ron Arad show
Frame Publishers - August 26, 2012
Niccola Bozzi
720° Installation by Ron Arad
Jerusalem Post - August 16, 2012
720 Degrees of separation
The Guardian - August 13, 2012
Harriet Sherwood
Jerusalem exhibition lifts the veil on Hasidic Jewish culture
Architizer News - August 8, 2012
Ron Arad’s New Levitating Cinema For The Israel Museum
El Pais - August 21, 2012
Ana Carbajosa
Una muestra muy heterodoxa
Art in America - August 7, 2012
Brian Boucher
Curatorial Appointments at Israel Museum: Rita Kersting, Mira Lapidot
CCTV - July 27, 2012
Dead Sea Scrolls available in Chinese
The New York Times - July 25
Ronen Bergman
A Highly Whodunnit
Israel Magazin - August 18, 2012
"720 Grad" - die Mega-Installation im IsraelMuseum
The New York Times - July 13, 2012
Edward Rothstein
A Haven National and Universal: The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Renewed
The Jewish Magazine - August 2012
Jay Levinson
Fighting for the Wrong Side (Holocaust Art Exhibit)
Arutz Sheva - June 28, 2012
Yoni Kempinski
A Visit to the Unique Hassidut Exhibition at the Israel Museum
The Times of Israel - June 27, 2012
Matti Friedman
Unexpected beauty and unanswered riddles from a desert cave
artdaily.org - June 19, 2012
Israel Museum exhibition sheds light on culture and life of Hasidic Jews
Haaretz - June 7, 2012
Jerusalem names Israel Museum's James Snyder honorary citizen
Bloomberg - June 6, 2012
Gwen Ackerman
Torn Limbs, Hollow Stares Evoke War Horrors in Israel
Haaretz - June 1
Secrets of the sects: A peek into Hasidic homes and closets
Haaretz - May 31, 2012
Masks of terror and other portraits of the young as artists
Midnight East - May 28, 2012
Angela Levine
Icons in Tandem: Tadeusz Kantor and Joseph Beuys
Midnight East - May 28,2012
Angela Levine
Icons in Tandem: Tadeusz Kantor and Joseph Beuys
Haaretz - May 17, 2012
Daniel Rauchwerger
The artist as wandering Jew
The Times of Israel - May 10, 2012
Revealed: The scandalous history of Judaism's most precious book
IBA News - May 7
White Gold opening (video)
The Jewish Daily Forward - May 9, 2012
Joshua Neustein at the Israel Museum
artdaily.org - May 8, 2012
500 of the first coins ever minted featured in new exhibition at the Israel Museum
All About Jerusalem.com - May 7, 2012
500 Coins from 7th Century BCE on Public View for First Time
Jerusalem Post - April 25, 2012
Ruth Eglash
A (virtual) museum visit
Haaretz - April 23, 2012
Yair Ettinger
Senior ultra-Orthodox leader pays historic visit to Israel Museum
The Times of Israel - April 21, 2012
Matti Friedman
In a bronze inscription, a remnant of Roman might
Sotheby's - April 18, 2012
Anthony Calnek
Lily Safra Gives A Richter to the Museum
AP- April 3, 2012
Aron Heller
Israel Museum showcased in Google Art Project
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Businessweek, April 9, 2012
Google Art Project may lure Israel Museum VisitorsBloomberg
Bloomberg, April 9, 2012
Google seeks Mona Lisa as online art embrace Van Gogh
The Jewish Voice, April 11, 2012
Google Art Project Highlights Israel Museum
Israel 21c, April 11, 2012
Israel Museum gets framed
Alliance Magazine, April 2012
Israel Museum Joins Google Art Project
Haaretz - April 3, 2012
Daniel Rauchberger
Israel Museum joins Google Art Project
The Jewish Chronicle - April 3, 2012
Jennifer Lipman
Israel Museum's collection goes online with Google's help
daylife.com - April 3, 2012
Israel Museum director James Snyder presents the Google Art Project
Bible History Daily - April, 6, 2012
Google and Israel Museum Create Virtual Museum Experience
MidnightEast - April 4
Ayelet Dekel
The Israel Museum joins the Google Art Project
The Google Art Project on television (Hebrew unless otherwise stated):
Channel 10 - Israel Museum available for virtual tour on Google Art project
Channel 1 - From today virtual tours in the Israel Museum straight from Google
Channel 9 (Russian) - Israel Museum joins Google Art project
Channel 2 - Israel Museum on the map with Google Art project
The Google Art Project on radio (Hebrew):
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Haaretz, April 11, 2012
And so to bed
Art Media Agency, April 13, 2012
Sharon Lockhart/Noa Eshkol at LACMA
Washington Post - March 20, 2012
Israel Museum receives 200 photographs by French photographer Eugene Atget
Haaretz - Jan 30, 2012
Smadar Sheffi
Eastern avant-garde: Group exhibition “Jewish Avant-Garde Artists from Romania,” Israel Museum, Jerusalem
New York Times - Jan 13, 2012
Carol Vogel
Surprise! Israel Museum Is Receiving a Richter
artdaily.org - Jan 16, 2012
Lily Safra donates Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild 849-3(1997) to the Israel Museum
Bloomberg - Jan 15, 2012
Calev Ben David
Lily Safra Donates Gerhard Richter Painting to Israel Museum
Art Daily Jan 12, 2012
Rubens masterwork featured in illuminating focus exhibition at the Israel Museum
Ynet News - Jan 5, 2012
Vlad Solomon
Exhibition ponders "why so many Jews?"
Haaretz - Jan 2, 2012
Yuval Saar
Israel Museum opens its doors to the curious minds of international artists
Co.Design - January 3, 2012
Suzanne Lebarre
10 Designers Who Follow the Muse of Curiosity
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About the Israel Museum
The Israel Museum is the largest cultural institution in the State of Israel and is ranked among the world’s leading art and archaeology museums. Founded in 1965, the Museum houses encyclopedic collections, including works dating from prehistory to the present day, in its Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Jewish Art and Life Wings, and features the most extensive holdings of biblical and Holy Land archaeology in the world. In just forty-five years, thanks to a legacy of gifts and generous support from its circle of patrons worldwide, the Museum has built a far-ranging collection of nearly 500,000 objects, representing the full scope of world material culture.
In the summer of 2010, the Israel Museum completed the most comprehensive upgrade of its 20-acre campus in its history, featuring new galleries, entrance facilities, and public spaces. The three-year expansion and renewal project was designed to enhance visitor experience of the Museum’s collections, architecture, and surrounding landscape, complementing its original design by Alfred Mansfeld and Dora Gad. Led by James Carpenter Design Associates of New York and Efrat-Kowalsky Architects of Tel Aviv, the project also included the complete renewal and reconfiguration of the Museum’s Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Archaeology Wing, Edmond and Lily Safra Fine Arts Wing, and Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Wing for Jewish Art and Life.
Among the highlights of the Museum’s original campus is the Shrine of the Book, designed by Armand Bartos and Frederick Kiesler, which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest biblical manuscripts in the world, as well as rare early medieval biblical manuscripts. Adjacent to the Shrine is the Model of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period, which reconstructs the topography and architectural character of the city as it was prior to its destruction by the Romans in 66 CE, and provides historical context to the Shrine’s presentation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Museum’s celebrated Billy Rose Art Garden, designed for the original campus by Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, is counted among the finest outdoor sculpture settings of the 20th century. An Oriental landscape combined with an ancient Jerusalem hillside, the garden serves as the backdrop for the Israel Museum’s display of the evolution of the modern western sculptural tradition. On view are works by modern masters including Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Claes Oldenburg, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, and David Smith, together with more recent site-specific commissions by such artists as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Mark Dion, James Turrell, and Micha Ullman.
The Ruth Youth Wing for Art Education, unique in its size and scope of activities, presents a wide range of programming to more than 100,000 schoolchildren each year, and features exhibition galleries, art studios, classrooms, a library of illustrated children’s books, and a recycling room. Special programs foster intercultural understanding between Arab and Jewish students and reach out to the wide spectrum of Israel’s communities.
In addition to the extensive programming offered on its main campus, the Israel Museum also operates two off-site locations: the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, an architectural gem built in 1938 for the display of archaeology from ancient Israel; and Ticho House, which offers an ongoing program of exhibitions by younger Israeli artists in a historic house and garden setting
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The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
PO Box 71117
Jerusalem 91710
Dena Scher Bartra, Foreign Press Officer
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Israel Press Office
Tel: 02-670-8868
Fax: 02-670-8063
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