![]() “People from all over the world … would find their own narrative here in this museum,” she said.īut the museum occasionally struggles in addressing the vastly rival narratives of Israelis and Palestinians. ![]() It has exhibits explaining Jerusalem’s significance to the three monotheistic faiths whose followers have prayed and shed each others’ blood here over successive centuries.Īn audio-visual presentation captures the annual cycle of Jewish, Christian and Muslim holidays, and there are scale models of the ancient Jewish Temple, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the golden Dome of the Rock. The Tower of David strives to be “an inclusive museum,” said Lieber. ![]() ![]() The museum’s ambitious new permanent exhibitions - mixing multimedia displays with artifacts - have advanced the visitor experience to the 21st century, while a restored late 19th-century scale model of Jerusalem designed for the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair adds some throwback flair.Įxhibits focus on themes of the city’s long history, rather than any detailed traipse through Jerusalem’s many centuries of successive conquest, occupation, destruction and reconstruction. ![]()
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