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18 ❯❯ Top 10 Israel and Petra Highlights

Israel Museum

One of the world’s leading museums of art and archaeology, the
Israel Museum has a breathtaking collection representing human
material culture from prehistory to 21st-century Israeli artworks.
Highlights include the Dead Sea Scrolls, artifacts found at Masada,
ancient Hebrew inscriptions, and centuries-old synagogues from
Southern India, Northern Italy, Suriname, and Germany, plus
superb works of European art, including a canvas by Rembrandt.
There are also libraries, landscaped gardens, and places to eat.
The Shrine
1
of the Book
Housed in the heart of
the shrine are the oldest
biblical manuscripts in
the world: the Dead Sea
Scrolls. A full-scale
facsimile of the Great
Isaiah Scroll – the only
completely intact scroll
found – forms a dramatic
centerpiece (below).

Second Temple Model
3
This meticulous scale model (above) covers
almost an acre (4,000 sq m) and gives a good sense
of Jerusalem’s topography and architecture on the
eve of the Great Jewish Revolt against the Romans
(AD 66–70), a generation after Jesus’ crucifixion.
Archaeology
Fine Arts Wing
4 5
Wing
The collections
here include works by Starting with the
Cézanne, Degas, anthropoid sarcophagi
Monet, Pissarro, at the entrance (left),
Ruth Youth
2 and Renoir, this chronological
Wing
journey through the
as well as
Dedicated to interactive Modigliani, Holy Land never
art activities, the Ruth Pollock, fails to impress.
Youth Wing features Rothko, and There are fine
galleries, art and craft Schiele. It also mosaic floors from
studios, a library of has excellent Beit She’an and
illustrated children’s exhibits of Nablus, as well as
books, and a recycling art from Asia, priceless treasures
room. Parents are Africa, Oceania, from neighboring
encouraged to join in. and pre- cultures, including
The wing is most active Columbian Egypt, Greece, and
during school vacations. America. the Islamic world.
Eyewitness Travel – Top 10 series LAYERS PRINTED:
Three-column, 8.25pt grid “UK” LAYER
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Date 12th May 2015
Size 100mm x 191mm