The Diverse Worlds Currently on Display at the Israel Museum

A visit to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem is always fascinating, inspiring and meaningful - and it gets better each time. Currently there are a number of diverse and interesting exhibits that should not be missed. Our list of top picks on your next visit: 

• Fragile Dead Sea Scroll Now on Display: The Genesis Apocryphon is one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls and also one of the most mysterious. Due to its fragile condition, it’s been hidden from the public eye. Even standard room lighting could cause its crumbling parchment and delicate copper ink to deteriorate further. Now, the Israel Museum is offering a limited, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view this rare scroll thanks to a pioneering Israeli high-tech innovation.
• Gil Marco Shani's "Buses" Installation: Gil Marco Shani’s installation is an architectural intervention implanted in the heart of the Israel Museum. A temporary floor bisects the upper part of gallery – which has an especially high ceiling – to create a new level that has never before been stepped upon. It is on this invented floor that the artist has installed his garage stage-set and buses. Both garage and buses were entirely fabricated, custom-made, down to the last detail, of various ersatz materials meticulously modeled by a variety of planning and production techniques. The buses look whole and genuine but are, in fact, simulated, incomplete, partially constructed, and designed to be seen from a single viewpoint prescribed by the transparent door through which they are viewed. “Two years of work for a single frame,” the artist says.
• To Go - New Designs for Jewish Ritual Objects: When we travel, we take with us the objects necessary for observing our most essential rituals. For this exhibition, leading contemporary designers – including Vered Kaminski, Yaacov Kaufman, Assa Ashuah, Nati Shamia-Ofer, Yuri Suzuki, and Gali Cnaani – were asked to create a travel-set of objects for a Jewish holiday or lifecycle event. Featuring Shabbat sets, a portable chuppah, a matzah-making kit, objects for the Havdala ceremony, and more, this exhibition offers fascinating and original perspectives on the design of religious object in the 21st century.

For more visit the Israel Museum Website.