Model of Ancient Jerusalem at the Israel Museum. Photo by Matthew Shugart, courtesy Creative Commons
“[The Israel Museum is an] experiential journey that is universal in nature and embracing of all time.”
Museum buildings are often showpieces for great architects (consider the Guggenheim’s monumental buildings in New York and Bilbao—proud examples by Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry respectively). The Israel Museum in Jerusalem undertook a three-year overhaul, nearly doubling the exhibition spaces and providing welcome new perspectives on its massive collection. Undaunted by the millennia of history on display here, from the Dead Sea Scrolls to works commissioned for the space by contemporary artists Anish Kapoor and Olafur Eliasson, the museum’s director, James Snyder, describes it as providing an “experiential journey that is universal in nature and embracing of all time.”
