The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, is Israels foremost cultural institution and one of the worlds leading encyclopaedic museums. Founded in 1965, the Museums terraced 20-acre campus houses a wide-ranging collection of art and archaeology of world-class status. Its holdings include the worlds most comprehensive collections of the archaeology of the Holy Land, and Jewish Art and Life, as well as significant and extensive holdings in the Fine Arts, the latter encompassing eleven separate departments: Israeli Art; European Art; Modern Art; Contemporary Art; Prints and Drawings; Photography; Design and Architecture; Asian Art; African Art; Oceanic Art; and Arts of the Americas. The campus also includes the Shrine of the Book, which houses the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, the worlds oldest biblical manuscripts; an extensive model of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period; the Billy Rose Art Garden; and a dynamic Youth Wing for Art Education which provides educational programs for all ages...