Israel Museum

Ancient maps, scorched books, and survival art: Inside Israel Museum’s winter exhibitions

The Israel Museum opens its new winter fare with ancient charts, abstract paintings, compelling graphics, and alfresco beauty.

A New Map of the Promised Holy Land,’ by Dutch father and son Justus Danckert the Elder and Cornelis Danck erts the Younger, dating to around 1700, has our coastline running west to east.
Ticho House in Jerusalem.

Late Blossoms: Imagined encounters in Anna Ticho’s literary salon - book review

Avishai Shaar-Yashuv  documented the first few  months of Emily Damari’s life  following her return from  captivity in Gaza, for ‘The New  York Times.’

Local Testimony 2025: Powerful images of conflict, life, and hope at Eretz Israel Museum

‘Memento Mori’ by Adi Harush and Ben Tzur references Victorian mourning jewelry and the arc between heritage and contemporary works.

Melting Point at the Museum for Islamic Art shows what jewellery can be


Haifa Museum of Art opens new season today

Haifa Museum of Art's new season includes video-art works by Albanian-Italian artist Adrian Paci and a comprehensive solo exhibition by painter Anna Lukashevsky.

 THE WANDERERS’ by Adrian Paci.

Jerusalem Highlights February 11–17, 2022

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 'FACING ANNAPURNA' by Ezra Orion.

Jerusalem highlights: Week of Dec. 31, 2021 – January 7, 2022

What's new in Israel's capital in the upcoming week

 ENJOY THE winter season with hot soup. (Illustrative)

Israel Museum appoints new director

Weil succeeds Professor Ido Bruno, who completed his tenure on November 30.

 Denis Weil, new director of the Israel Museum.

Ruth Schreiber brings Jews and Germans together through art

This is further proof of ordinary Germans’ concern for their collective history, and that their Jewish neighbors should not be forgotten.

 ‘Wall of Masks’ made of paper, reversed black and white photo copies of the original letters, now in Yad Vashem. Schreiber used her son and daughter as models for the molds of faces for her grandfather and grandmother. This grid exhibits 150 of the 200 masks she made.

This week in Jerusalem: Shabbat rumblings

A round-up of city affairs.

 ISRAELI POLICE clash with demonstrators following the death of Ahuvia Sandak last year, at the entrance to Jerusalem, November 6.

Abracadabra: Israel Museum exhibit explores Jewish magic

A new exhibition features rare artifacts, including the earliest known instance of the Shema prayer used in a Jewish amulet.

 Manuscript of practical Kabbalah. Ukraine, ca. 1740, handwritten ink on paper. From the Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv

'Objects', an exhibit highlighting Kristallnacht, appears in Israeli museum

Suly translates the historical and socio-cultural origins of the raw materials, dismantles, examines, reassembles and transforms them into unique art creations in a style known as "ready-made."

 Art Exhibit: 'Objects' by Suly Bornstein Wolff appears in Israeli museum

Jerusalem highlights: Week of August 13-19

Don't know what to do in Jerusalem the coming week? Here's a list of suggestions to enrich your summer.

 Tristram's starling in Masada. Why not take a detective course at the Nili and David Jerusalem Bird Observatory and find such pretty birds yourself?

Israel Museum debuts 'Divine Food' exhibition

“It is about how people exploit the symbols in which we believe, in order to generate personal wealth or, maybe, they really do believe in the symbol.”

 CURATOR YVONNE FLEITMAN wanted to convey the scale and beauty of a Mayan temple.