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Open House at the Museum for Islamic Art!
Two unique tours:
An architectural gem museum tour that combines the rare collections of Islamic art:
On Friday (1.11): 10:15, 11:30, 12:45
On Saturday (2.11): 10:15, 11:30, 12:45
The Museum for Islamic Art, which contains one of the most unique and rare collections in the world that tells the story of the Islamic world from the 7th to the 19th centuries, is housed in an architectural gem in the heart of a Jerusalem residential neighborhood, adjacent to the Jerusalem Theater and the President's House. The monumental museum structure was designed in the 1960s by one of the renowned Jerusalem architects of his time, Alexander Friedman (who also designed the city's Great Synagogue). The building is steeped in arches, narrow, elongated windows and massive stone shelves, combining architectural modernity with typical characteristics of Muslim architecture.
The tour will introduce you to the museum's collection and rare exhibits, and will include references to the architecture of the building that houses them, emphasizing the correspondence between the museum's interior and its exterior.
Limited to the first 30 participants. No pre-registration is required.
Tour length is about one hour. The tour is in Hebrew.
A guided tour of the "Jewelry Making: Past & Present" exhibition at the Museum for Islamic Art
Friday (1.11): 10:30 a.m., 11:45 p.m., 1 p.m.
Saturday (2.11): 10:30 a.m., 11:45 p.m., 1 p.m.
The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem presents a large-scale exhibition - " Jewelry Making: Past & Present", which presents a timeline a thousand years of dialogue between culture, religion, past and present. The exhibition presents unique works of jewelry attributed to the three prominent monotheistic religions in Jerusalem: Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Another focus of the exhibition is contemporary jewelry, 45 Israeli artists created a special exhibition, inspired by the museum's rare Islamic collection. The exhibition also features traditional Yemenite jewelry worn by the late singer Ofra Haza at performances.