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

The Eretz Israel Museum hosts Local Testimony 2025, a moving exhibition of photography documenting war, life, and hope.

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.’
‘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

ANSELM KIEFER’S monumental sculpture ‘Die Erdzeitalter (Ages of the World).’

Anselm Kiefer’s ‘Ages of the World’ sculpture now on view at the Israel Museum

 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Israeli delegation brings museum innovation to first ICOM summit in Arab region


Grapevine: Civic city‏

“Teddy’s concept is more important today than ever,” Snyder said, as spoke of plans for the cultural, social and economic integration of the various components of the city’s demographic mosaic.

James Snyder 311

Israel Museum director hosts tribute to Nechama Rivlin

Last Thursday evening, the Springer Auditorium at the Israel Museum was filled to capacity with members of the Rivlin family and their friends.

Nechama Rivlin looking through a graphic novel based on The Diary of Anne Frank.

What's the connection between Ilan Ramon's diary, Dead Sea Scrolls?

The Israel Museum’s new exhibit connects the unlikely story of the biblical character Enoch and Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon.

Michael Maggen separating the pages in the Israel Museum laboratory

Museums in Israel free on Lag Ba'omer

Many museums throughout the Jewish state will be free on the holiday of Lag Ba'omer.

Robert Indiana's Love sculpture at the entrance of the Israel Museum

Antique Passover seder plate returned to Israel Museum after 50 years

No one knows how the holiday artifact ended up at the Ben Zvi Institute, but a sharp-eyed Israel Museum employee noticed the seder plate during a workshop.

Passover seder plate (illustrative)

Passover in Israel is time to see museums for free

The sites will be free of charge Sunday-Thursday, April 21-25. Sunday-Wednesday will feature full days of operation, and Thursday will offer a half-day of activity.

The Holon Design Museum will offer free entry during the intermediate days of Passover

Israel Museum exhibit uncovers the truth about clothing

Unrevealing clothes actually reveal much about the wearers, at the Israel Museum.

Muslim women in more contemporary attire

At home with Anna Ticho

Ticho’s output chronicles her personal and cultural baggage and her experiences, both in her place of birth, Vienna and Jerusalem during the early stages of the 20th century and thereafter.

AN EARLY self-portrait, from 1925.

A fine line

The question is wherein runs the line between necessary evil and overstepping the boundaries of morally acceptable conduct.

Iranian artist Shirin Abedinirad portrays the fine line between harmonious living and destruction.

The radical Rambam

The Israel Museum's exhibit is well worth a visit and also offers an accompanying book that contains valuable insights into his importance.

An illuminated and illuminated Mishneh Torah copied in Spain or Provence in the 14th century at the Israel Museum exhibit, Maimonides: A Legacy in Script, on loan from the National Library, Jerusalem