Tower of David Museum

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Eilat Lieber, director and chief curator of the Tower of David Museum, stands in the site of the Kishle, which is currently being excavated.

Inside the dig that peeled back 2,000 years of Jerusalem history

Front entrance to Jerusalem’s Rockefeller Museum, opened in 1938.

A Jerusalem gem: Rediscovering the Rockefeller Museum’s treasures in Israel's capital

Archaeologist Amit Re'em and Eilat Lieber, director of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum stand atop the recently uncovered section of the Hasmonean wall.

Hasmonean era 'first wall' section revealed at Tower of David museum excavation - interview


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 THE OR LAMISHPACHOT choir sings at an ICEJ gathering last Sunday at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem.

'On the Other Side': Tower of David's new exhibit by Zadok Ben-David

The exhibition comprises striking sculptures and a beautiful video installation that are spread throughout the Tower of David complex, integrating site-specific works with ones shown abroad.

 ‘Innerscapes on the Move,’ 2008. On the remnants of the round eighth century tower in the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum.

We will dress up again: Oct. 7 victims model in historic fashion shoot of hope

Israel’s fashion world has risen to the challenge of how to wear the war, bear and express its pain and trauma, and armor all of us to defiantly move ahead with hope.

 Noam Ben David is wearing Oshrat Mishel's IDF-inspired wedding gown while being photographed at The Jerusalem Post's photoshoot at the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum, on August 1, 2024.

Jerusalem's historical Kishle site hosts captivating ‘Umbilicus’ art exhibition

The Kishle, which houses a range of artifacts from various historical periods, was unearthed in an archaeological dig and uncovers thousands of years of Jerusalem's history.

 HANNAN ABU-HUSSEIN explores the theme of women’s voices and body acceptance.

‘The Jerusalem School’ exhibition at the Tower of David

“The Jerusalem School” duo exhibition opened at the end of March and runs through the end of the summer – with English tours starting at the Angelina Drahi Entrance Pavilion on Sundays at 1 p.m. 

 The newly opened Angelina Drahi Entrance Pavilion at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem.

Tower of David Jerusalem opens multi-level pavilion

After more than a decade of planning and three years of construction, the final part of the renewal of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum is complete.

 The new entrance to the Tower of David Museum Jerusalem.

After painstaking excavation, the Tower of David pavilion opens

This is a striking new architectural concept in the city, having been excavated deep beneath the earth’s surface to adhere to height restrictions prohibiting anything taller than the Old City walls.

 Adhering to strict height restrictions to maintain the Old City’s skyline, Kimmel Eshkolot Architects excavated 17 meters down to craft the new multi-level Tower of David Angelina Drahi Entrance Pavilion in an area between the outer Old City Ottoman-period wall and the inner wall.

The Old City of Jerusalem's latest architectural layer

Over the past decade, the city of Jerusalem has worked to renew the Tower of David Museum, which hosts a new entrance pavilion from Jaffa Gate, an Education Center, and later this year, a coffee shop

 Angelina Drahi Pavilion.

Meet the creative force behind Jerusalem's Tower of David Museum

At the Table: Eilat Lieber has a gentle demeanor and sweet disposition – and she’s one of Jerusalem’s best self-proclaimed ambassadors. 

 Eilat Lieber at the Tower of David Museum.

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 THE TOWER of David Museum: Telling 4,000 years of Jerusalem history.