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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.
Rockefeller Museum A Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition poster at the California Science Center says at lower left "In partnership with Israel Antiquities Authority". The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA, Hebrew: רשות העתיקות rashut ha-'atiqot; Arabic: داﺌرة الآثار, before 1990, the Israel Department of Antiquities) is an independent Israeli governmental authority responsible ...
Israeli art and culture, antiquities Eretz Israel Museum: Tel Aviv (Museum Campus) Archaeology, history of Eretz Yisrael: Beit HaPalmach: Tel Aviv Jewish resistance during the British Mandate – Palmach: Haifa Museum: Haifa: Contemporary Israeli art Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art: Haifa: Japanese art Israel Railway Museum: Haifa
A museum in Israel on Monday postponed its planned auction of dozens of rare Islamic antiquities after word of the sale sparked a public uproar. The L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art said it was ...
Renamed the "Rockefeller Museum," it is now managed by the Israel Museum and houses the head office of the Israel Antiquities Authority. [7] The Museum's most prized collection, the Dead Sea Scrolls, were housed in the Museum from their discovery, in 1947, until 1967, when, following the Israeli capture of East Jerusalem, Israel relocated the ...
Alon Arad, director of Israeli cultural heritage non-governmental organization Emek Shaveh, said that putting the Israel Antiquities Authority in charge of archaeology in the occupied territory ...
This undated image released by the Israel Antiquities Authority on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, shows an ivory comb with an entire sentence in the Canaanite language, a 3,700-year-old inscription ...
After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the British Mandatory Department of Antiquities, housed at the Rockefeller Museum, became the Department of Antiquities of the State of Israel. In 1990 the Department of Antiquities became the Israel Antiquities Authority, an autonomous government authority charged with responsibility for ...