The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, opened on 11 May 1965, is the country's national museum and one of the leading cultural institutions in the region. It was founded in the 1960s to gather Israel's archaeological, art and Jewish heritage collections in a single place on a hill facing the Knesset. Its buildings were designed by Alfred Mansfeld and Dora Gad. The museum houses the Shrine of the Book, a white-domed building holding the Dead Sea Scrolls, along with large collections of archaeology, Jewish art and life, and European and modern art. It also has a sculpture garden by Isamu Noguchi and a model of Jerusalem in the late Second Temple period. It underwent a major renovation in the 2000s.
Before and after
- 18 March 1965Launch of Voskhod 2
- 18 March 1965Alexei Leonov makes the first spacewalk
- 4 April 1965Birth of Robert Downey Jr.
- 8 April 1965Merger Treaty
- 11 May 1965Construction of Israel Museum
- 20 May 1965Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705
- 14 July 1965Mariner 4 sends the first close-up pictures of Mars
- 19 July 1965Introduction of Ghana cedi
- 31 July 1965Birth of J. K. Rowling
More in Art, literature & culture
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- 1949Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
- 1960Construction of Aswan Dam
- 1978Publication of Garfield
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The era
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