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Print for the ages: Israel Museum showcases printmaking masterpieces

The Israel Museum continues its 60th anniversary festivities with a sumptuous print-based exhibition

THE POLYCHROMATIC love design was a leitmotif of Robert Indiana’s long career.
HENRI MATISSE, ‘Jazz, 1947,’ from the exhibition ‘The Medium and the Message’ at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

The Israel Museum’s 60-year journey through printmaking

The Transparent Conservation Lab offers the public a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the work of the art conservator

At 60, the Israel Museum offers a new take on its accumulated treasures

An illustrative image of people drinking wine.

The Wine Festival at the Israel Museum celebrates its silver anniversary


How Israel safeguards archaeological treasures amid Iranian attacks

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: Museum staff members across Israeli institutions face the challenge of protecting some of the most important artifacts of humankind.

 ‘THEY ARE are organic. They can be burned.’ Ivory artifacts, like the figurines pictured here, were among the highest priority artifacts to be removed from the museum to safety.

Israel's cultural institutions, theaters bounce back after Iran war

Museums and galleries are welcoming visitors once again after the 12 day Israel-Iran war.

 THE JERUSALEM International Film Festival will proceed on July 17.

Israeli museums to open for free for International Museum Day

“On Museum Day there is a sharp rise in attendance at museums – in some places it is up to 40%. That is good for us all, for revenues,"chairwoman of Israel ICOM says.

 THE ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Ramat Aviv.

A poetic lens on Israel’s past

The exhibition Chris Marker: The Lost Photographs of Israel at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, showcases previously unseen photographs of Israel in 1960.

 Chris Marker

Israel Museum Jerusalem: Guarding the past, shaping the future - interview

Suzanne Landau, director of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, reflects on the institution’s past, present, and future.

 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

A temple of art, resilience, and renewal

Tanya Sirakovich, chief curator of Fine Arts at the Israel Museum, envisions the institution as a living space where past and present, people and artworks exist in constant dialogue

 Tanya Sirakovich (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2025)

Fractured visions: Reimagining Israeli art

Amitai Mendelsohn reimagines the Israeli art collection in The Swing of the Pendulum, a new permanent display at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 Dr. Amitai Mendelsohn, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Cats, dogs, and dung beetles: Discovering the animal world of ancient Egypt

Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and Egyptian culture through hieroglyphs, gods, and amulets

NIR OR LEV Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Three artists, three questions: Sound, light, and glass

I turned to a multimedia artist, an installation artist, and a glass sculptor, whose artworks are currently displayed at museums, galleries, and public sites.

 Anat Weiss with glass sculpture.

Israel Museum honors late Jerusalem artist Joseph Hirsch

A full 23 years after a large-scale posthumous retrospective at the University of Haifa and at the Artists House in Jerusalem, Hirsch has finally been given a slot by the Israel Museum.

 Artwork by Joseph Hirsch.

Grapevine March 14, 2025: Anniversaries galore

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 YONA BARTAL with Rabbi Uri Maklev.