Museums in Jerusalem

Jerusalem's museums span thousands of years of history, from the 2,700-year-old Citadel at the Tower of David to the modern collections of the Israel Museum. Highlights include the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Shrine of the Book and excavated Second Temple period mansions in the Herodian Quarter and Burnt House. The city also features the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, the Rockefeller Archeological Museum, and specialized institutions dedicated to Islamic art, science, and the history of the Jewish underground.

Museums in Jerusalem — Map

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Tower of David

The city's Citadel known as the Tower of David dates more than 2.700 years back.

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Yad Va'Shem

Visit the world's largest memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust - this immense complex is full of informative exhibits and moving…

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Israel Museum

The largest cultural museum in the country founded in 1965, holds a mind-blowing collection of archaeological artefacts, scrolls and…

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Rockefeller Museum

The Rockefeller Archeological Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum, is an archaeology museum located in East Jerusalem,…

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Shrine of the Book

The Shrine of the Book is a wing of the Israel Museum in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem that houses the Dead Sea Scrolls and the…

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Museum of Islamic Art

The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem provides visitors with a glimpse of one of the rarest and unique collections worldwide that relate…

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Asirei HaMahtarot

Museum of Underground Prisoners is a museum in Jerusalem, commemorating the activity of the Jewish underground—Haganah, Irgun and…

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Chamber of the Holocaust

Chamber of the Holocaust is a small Holocaust museum located on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Israel. It was Israel's first Holocaust museum.

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Museum for Islamic Art

The L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art is a museum in Jerusalem, established in 1974.

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Menachem Begin Heritage Center

The Menachem Begin Heritage Center is the official state memorial commemorating Menachem Begin, Israel’s sixth Prime Minister.

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Old Yishuv Court Museum

The Ari Synagogue is situated on Or HaHaim Street in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

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Burnt House

The Burnt House Museum is a museum presenting an excavated house from the Second Temple period.

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Bloomfield Science Museum

Bloomfield Science Museum is a science museum in Jerusalem, established in 1992.

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Nature Museum

Located in a historic stone building near the German Colony, this museum features exhibits on natural history, the environment, and human biology, including dioramas of local wildlife and a community garden.

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Siebenberg House

Siebenberg House is a museum below a house on 5 Beit HaShoeva Alley in the Old City of Jerusalem in the Jewish Quarter.

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Herodian Quarter

This museum preserves in situ an outstanding example of aristocratic mansion of the Second Temple period. More than 2000 years of history!

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Ha'Rav Kook Museum

The former home of the outstanding rabbi and politician is now open to public as a museum. Its interiors are well worth seeing!

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Mardigian Armenian Museum

Situated in the Armenian Quarter, this museum showcases the history and culture of the Armenian people through religious artifacts, traditional ceramics, and historical documents.

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Museum on the Seam

A socio-political contemporary art museum located in a historic building on the former border between East and West Jerusalem. It hosts rotating exhibitions focusing on social issues, human rights, and coexistence.

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