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The Jewish Musuem Gets a Facelift
A sculpture by Anish Kapoor.Maybe you’re going to Israel for the high holy days, and if you’re not, maybe you should. The Jewish Museum has undergone major renovations, with fewer items on display, more room to view them and more explanations and information.
The museum has the original shofar, a set of bull horns about a million years old. The facelifted museum suggests the way Jews have thrived cultures in different cultures. For example, a Byzantine era exhibit shows a mosque, church niche and synagogue placed side by side. Archaelogical digs have been good to Israel, and now the museum has spacious halls to display the remnants of this ancient architecture.
There is more of a narrative now, the exhibits flow easily from one to the next. Installations and artworks by Mexican, Indian and Palestinian artists decorate the museum’s interior. Not to mention the expressionist art galleries have works of Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso.
Also popular is an outdoor model of ancient Jerusalem. And of course, don’t miss the Dead Sea Scrolls, the world’s oldest copies of Biblical documents. The high holy days are coming up, and to celebrate the Jewish new year, there’s no better place to see how Jewish culture has influenced the world.
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Posted on: Monday, July 26th, 2010 at 8:57 am
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