Israel Museum and Shrine of the Book

The Israel Museum and Shrine of the Book

Art, archaeology, and the scrolls

The Israel Museum, founded in 1965, is Israel's national museum, with archaeology, Judaica, fine art, and a sculpture garden designed by Isamu Noguchi. Its Shrine of the Book, a white dome shaped like the lid of a jar that held the Dead Sea Scrolls, houses scrolls found at Qumran and elsewhere. The museum also has a large model of Jerusalem as it looked in the Second Temple period. Visitors can follow the story of the land from prehistory to contemporary art in a single hilltop campus.

Glossary: Israel Museum and Shrine of the Book