Museums in Israel

The Museum is a center for cultural and educational programming. It is the only museum in the world displaying the history of the biblical period in the various lands of the Bible. In just six years the museum has produced numerous outstanding special exhibitions.

Recommended for children and youths; also enjoyable for adults.
The science museum is a new and modern museum with innovative and sophisticated exhibits that illustrate different scientific areas.

This free exhibit displays the cable car which used to transport food and provisions to the defenders of Mount Zion and evacuate the wounded during the independence war.

Before his death in 1966, Palombo designed the iron gates to Yad Vashem and the Knesset. The gates are called ''the Court Gates'', and their position at the entrance to the house of representatives of the Jewish state is a silent reminder of the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust.

The Museum of Islamic art is a collection of Jewish miniatures, arts, tools and weapons from Islamic lands. The museum was opened in memory of Prof. L.A. Mayer, an important Islamic art and archaeology scholar.

The Mardigian Museum of Armenian Art and Culture has become one of the Armenian Diaspora's most important and valuable cultural outposts.
The Edward and Helen Mardigian Museum of Armenian Art and Culture is located inside the Armenian Convent walls.