Rockefeller Archaeological Museum — Attraction in Jerusalem

Although it's owned by the Israel Museum, the Rockefeller museum is clear a very different type of museum. It was originally set up during the British mandate period and it shows - in many ways it still looks like what people thought a museum should look like in the 1940s. Interpretive signs are far fewer, very few large items, and most things assume their audience will be the well educated aristocracy. The whole place just feels old and dusty. The library even boasts that it has "authentic furniture from the British mandate period". Kid friendly this place is not. It is also very unique - while the Israel museum focuses on Jewish history, this branch focuses much more on the Arab history of the area. The library is one of the best features - you can't take anything out, but it's open to the public and if you want to read anything about archaeology, this is clearly the...

This is one of my favorite buildings in Israel. Founded by the British mandate government around 1935 it was designed as the archaeological museum, and it still functions as one today. Austen St. Barbe Harrison is the architect and the stone sculpture Arthur Eric Rowton Gill came from England to make the signs and the stone designs. Take a walk through the long halls and patio, visit the enchanting library and if you can take the spiral staircase to the lower floor to take a glimpse at the wonders of the Israel Antiquities Authority back rooms and storage. The exhibits of the museum are truly extraordinary and tell the archaeological story of this...

Very nice place to visit in the east part of the city you can use bus number 1 it brings you here from the central bus station and I really recommend you to come here for many different reasons, they have nice gates and hisorty from different period of time and different places like the holy spechular church and Muslim places from jericho and old history you can spend one full day here and it's all for free of charge you don't need to pay any ticket to come here and it's close to the old city 2 min walking...