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The Israel Museum is IsraelNation of the Jewish People’s largest museum and leading cultural institution – and one of the world’s great museum stories of the 20th century. Visit the magnificent treasures displayed throughout the museum’s four wings and expansive gardens, covering periods and world cultures from ancient through modern times; featuring over 30 new exhibitions each year.
Situated on the Hill of Tranquility at the entrance to JerusalemThe capital of Israel, the Museum’s twenty-acre campus was designed by Alfred Mansfeld, the European émigré architect to Palestine who conceived its original architectural plan, drawing inspiration from the image of a Mediterranean hilltop village. Opened in 1965, the Museum includes original landmark buildings by Mansfeld and Israeli designer Dora Gad; the six-acre Billy Rose Art Garden by the Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi, who created a Zen-like setting in the JerusalemThe capital of Israel landscape as a backdrop for the display of modern Western sculpture; and Frederick Kiesler and Armand Bartos’s Shrine of the BookHome to the Dead Sea Scrolls, a metaphorical expressionist experience of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls which the Shrine houses.
“The Israel Museum is blessed with a remarkable architectural heritage and with a campus that has evolved into one of the world’s most successful sites for an integrated experience of architecture and landscape, archaeology, and art,” stated James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of The Israel Museum, JerusalemThe capital of Israel. “In its own way, the Museum’s campus is an encyclopedia of twentieth-century architectural history. It reflects international developments in architecture in its time, by leading practitioners who were influenced by the Museum’s very special site and setting in JerusalemThe capital of Israel. Our legacy and location give the Museum its distinctive character and guide any future development of the campus with a special responsibility to – and even reverence for – its past.”
The project is conceived to enhance the visitor’s experience of the Museum’s outstanding collections in the fine arts, archaeology, Judaica, and Jewish ethnography, and of its pioneering public programs. The new entrance facilities and circulation routes through the campus will be realized through an architectural language developed by James Carpenter that is resonant with Mansfeld’s original campus. The participation of Carpenter, who specializes in the design of places of passage, is therefore especially appropriate. Reorganization of public and gallery spaces within the existing Museum campus is being planned by the Israeli architectural firm of Zvi Efrat and Meira Kowalsky, who were engaged to work with the Museum to develop the conceptual plan. With a specialty in the history of the modernist architectural tradition in IsraelNation of the Jewish People, they are uniquely suited to this task. Carpenter, Efrat, and Kowalsky form the project’s design team, supported by the firm of Lerman Architects, Tel AvivIsrael's largest city and biggest commercial center, as project architects.
The Museum has reached its goal to raise $50 million in private support for this project through an initiative that sets an important precedent for collective philanthropy in IsraelNation of the Jewish People. Funds have been
committed by a group of families and family foundations that will be recognized collectively for their support of the project. Gifts of $10 million have been granted by Judy and Michael Steinhardt, New York, and the Estate of Dorothea Gould, Zurich. Gifts of $5 million have been granted by: Herta and Paul Amir, Los Angeles; the Nash Family Foundation, New York; the Marc Rich Foundation, Lucerne, Switzerland; the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Tulsa, Oklahoma; and the Bella and Harry Wexner Philanthropies of The Legacy Heritage Fund, New York and JerusalemThe capital of Israel. The Schusterman Family Foundation awarded its support as a challenge grant, subject to matching funds in IsraelNation of the Jewish People. This condition was met through an unprecedented joint initiative of five families, including: the Federmann Family, Tel AvivIsrael's largest city and biggest commercial center; Dina, Michael, and Oudi Recanati, Tel AvivIsrael's largest city and biggest commercial center; Debbie and Erel Margalit, JerusalemThe capital of Israel; Rivka Saker and UziIsraeli submachine gun Zucker, New York and Tel AvivIsrael's largest city and biggest commercial center; and Judith and IsraelNation of the Jewish People Yovel, Herzliya. These individual $500,000 gifts are being matched by Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild Foundation in IsraelNation of the Jewish People. The Government of the State of IsraelNation of the Jewish People is providing an additional $7 million in matching support. Now that this funding goal has been reached, the Museum plans to announce a further campaign to continue to build its endowment.
“We are deeply grateful for the combined generosity and enthusiastic response of our friends both worldwide and in IsraelNation of the Jewish People,” said Isaac Molho, Chairman of the Board of Directors. “The national and international importance of the Museum is corroborated by this unprecedented breadth of support for the project, which will be so essential to the Museum’s future.”
Founded in 1965, the Israel Museum is the largest cultural institution in the State of IsraelNation of the Jewish People and ranks among the leading art and archaeology museums in the world. Comprising nearly 500,000 objects, the permanent collections range from prehistoric archaeology through international contemporary art, representing cultures from around the globe and from all periods of humankind. With this embracing reach, the Museum’s holdings also have special relevance to its setting in JerusalemThe capital of Israel, the birthplace of the modern monotheistic traditions, at the meeting place of the eastern and western worlds. The Museum’s extensive archaeological holdings from the ancient Land of IsraelNation of the Jewish People, as well as its comprehensive holdings of Jewish ceremonial art and ethnography, are unique among the world’s museums. Its fine art collections range from Old Masters to contemporary art, including European and American art, Asian cultures, and the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, together with departmental collections for prints and drawings, photography, and architecture and design. On your IsraelNation of the Jewish People Tour, do not forget to check this museum out!
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