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Jerusalem
Where Biblical History Converges with the Modern Era
What’s on offer for the modern-day traveler?
Jerusalem is one of the world’s most With so much due variety in sightseeing, The Israel Museum
important cities. Sacred to Jews, Muslims, attractions, and activities, Jerusalem fits The Israel Museum is the largest cultural
and Christians, five thousand years of history, all varieties of travelers, offering more than institution in the State of Israel, also
with a unique combination of tremendous 40 museums depicting the story of the ranked among the world’s leading art and
stories and a modern-day society–Jerusalem country and its capital, science, art, history, archaeology museums. Founded in 1965, the
provides a world of fascination in itself. archaeology, culture, and more through Museum houses encyclopedic collections,
interactive exhibitions, multimedia displays, including works dating from prehistory to the
Eternally renewing and combining tradition and audio-visual shows. The city is also present day, in its Archaeology, Fine Arts, and
alongside development, the sacred, and the home to theaters, cinemas, tours, and a Jewish Art and Life Wings. It also features
secular, you are sure to discover the city's variety of restaurants for every taste, and the most extensive holdings of biblical and
charm at every turn. Each visit brings you is an architectural dream awash with its Holy Land archaeology in the world. In
face to face with Jerusalem's unique vistas in Jerusalem stone buildings. A splattering of nearly seventy years, thanks to a legacy of
a different light, offering new angles to view green spaces injects nature, greenery, and gifts and generous support from its circle of
the city's human mosaic. oxygen into the city. patrons worldwide, the Museum has built a
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