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Rockefeller Museum

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

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Rockefeller Museum
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The Rockefeller Archeological Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum, is an archaeology museum located in East Jerusalem, next to Herod's Gate, that houses a large collection of artifacts unearthed in the excavations conducted in the region of Palestine, mainly in the 1920s and 1930s, under the British authorities.With the beginning of the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank in 1967, the Palestine Archaeological Museum was renamed "Rockefeller Museum", and it has since then been under the management of the Israel Museum. The museum today houses the head office of the Israel Antiquities Authority.The Museum's most prized collection, the Dead Sea Scrolls, were housed in the Museum from their discovery, in 1947, until 1967, when, following the Israeli capture of East Jerusalem, Israel relocated the scrolls to the Israel Museum, in West Jerusalem, with the ownership of these scrolls having been heavily contested ever since.

Source: Wikipedia

More information and contact

Rockefeller Museum at Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Museum
Email fawziib@imj.org.il
Phone +972 2 6708074
Address Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories
Coordinates 31°47'3.412" N, 35°14'8.927" E
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