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Museums in Jerusalem & hills

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• Shrine of the Book ★
  The Shrine of the Book, at the Israel Museum, houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known manuscripts of Tanach. Its white dome, shaped li
• Israel Museum ★
  The Israel Museum is the country's largest museum, covering archaeology, Judaica, Jewish ethnography and art. Highlights include the Shrine
• Bible Lands Museum ★
  The Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem's museum district presents the ancient Near East, from Egypt and Mesopotamia to Persia and Canaan, throu
• Yad Va'Shem ★
  Yad Vashem is Israel's national memorial to the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Its history museum, the Hall of Names, the Child
• Mount Herzl ★
  Mount Herzl is Israel's national cemetery, where Theodor Herzl, founder of political Zionism, is buried along with prime ministers, presiden
• Rockefeller Museum ★
  The Rockefeller Museum is a historic archaeological museum near the Old City walls, in an elegant stone building from the British Mandate pe
• Museum for Islamic Art ★
  The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem's Katamon area displays art and crafts from across the Islamic world. It is also known for its colle
• Ticho House ★
  Ticho House was the home of artist Anna Ticho and her husband Dr. Avraham Ticho, a renowned eye doctor who treated Jerusalemites of all comm
• Zedekiah's cave ★
  Zedekiah's Cave is a huge ancient quarry beneath the Old City, entered next to Damascus Gate. Tradition links it with King Tzidkiyahu's flig
• Menachem Begin Heritage Center ★
  The Menachem Begin Heritage Center tells the life story of Israel's sixth prime minister, from his youth in Poland and his command of the Ir
• Friends of Zion Museum ★
  The Friends of Zion Museum in central Jerusalem tells, through interactive multimedia, the stories of non-Jews who helped the Jewish people
• Burnt House ★
  The Burnt House in the Jewish Quarter is the excavated basement of a priestly family's home destroyed when the Romans burned Jerusalem in 70
• Gush Katif Museum ★
  The Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem tells the story of the Jewish communities of Gush Katif in Gaza, from their founding through decades of f
• Museum on the Seam ★
  The Museum on the Seam is a contemporary art museum in a historic building that stood on the line dividing Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967.
• Artist's House ★
  Beit HaOmanim, the Jerusalem Artists House, is a gallery for Israeli contemporary art in a historic building near the city center. It holds
• Biblical Museum of Natural History ★
  The Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh presents the animals mentioned in the Torah and Tanach, with live animals alongside a
• Nature Museum ★
  The Jerusalem Nature Museum, run by the city in the German Colony, is a small, old-style museum of animals, dioramas and natural history set
• Frumin House ★
  Frumin House on King George Street in Jerusalem was the first permanent home of the Knesset, from the early 1950s until it moved to its curr
• Bloomfield Science Museum ★
  The Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem is a hands-on museum where children explore science through interactive exhibits and experiments.
• Museum of Tolerance ★
  The Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, a project of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is a large modern complex in the city center near Independence
• Hansen House ★
  Hansen House is a 19th-century stone building in Jerusalem's Talbiyeh neighborhood that served for many years as a hospital for people with
• The Herodian Quarter ★
  The Herodian Quarter, also known as the Wohl Archaeological Museum, preserves the remains of wealthy homes in Jerusalem's Upper City from th
• Asirei HaMahtarot ★
  The Museum of Underground Prisoners in Jerusalem's Russian Compound occupies the British Mandate central prison, where members of the Hagana
• Agnon House
  The home of S.Y. Agnon, the Nobel Prize-winning Hebrew author, in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood. His study and library are preserved, off
• Museum of Italian Jewish Art
  The U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art on Hillel Street displays Judaica from Italy's Jewish communities and houses the historic synagogu
• Hebrew Music Museum
  The Hebrew Music Museum in Nahalat Shiva, central Jerusalem, displays musical instruments from Jewish communities and cultures around the wo
• The Holocaust History Museum
  The Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem on Har HaZikaron in Jerusalem tells the story of the Shoah through testimonies, artifacts and fil
• Yad La'Shiryon
  The Armored Corps museum at Latrun displays a large collection of tanks and armored vehicles in the grounds of an old British fortress. Chil
• Barbur Gallery
  A community art gallery in Jerusalem's Nachalat Shiva, just off the city center pedestrian streets.
• Ein Yael
  Ein Yael is a living museum in the Refaim valley in Jerusalem, where families try ancient crafts and farming in a setting of springs, terrac
• Ha'Rav Kook Museum
  A museum in Jerusalem. Check opening hours before you go.
• Davidson Center
  A museum in Jerusalem. Check opening hours before you go.
• Biblical Garden
  A museum in Yad HaShmona. Check opening hours before you go.
• Archäologischer Park „Durch die Zeiten“
  A museum in Jerusalem. Check opening hours before you go.
• Palestinian Heritage Museum of Dar al-Tifel
  A museum in Jerusalem. Check opening hours before you go.
• Museum of Holocaust Art
  A museum in Jerusalem. Check opening hours before you go.
• בית האומנים
  A museum in Modiin-Maccabim-Reut. Check opening hours before you go.
• Knesset Museum
  A museum in Jerusalem. Check opening hours before you go.
• Wiliams Planetarium
  A museum in Jerusalem. Check opening hours before you go.
• כוכביא
  A museum in Jerusalem. Check opening hours before you go.