The Israel Museum is one of the leading art and archaeology museums in the world. The Museum has a variety of children’s activities in the Youth Wing, especially in the summer and during holidays.
Great news for Jerusalem Kids! the Municipality, in cooperation with the Israel Museum, invites city residents up to the age of 18 to visit the museum for free, all year, starting September 1.
The Museum also features the Shrine of the Book, Model of Jerusalem During the 2nd Temple and an outdoor Sculpture Garden. The Museum offers permanent and temporary exhibits during the year. To experience the exhibits you can choose an audio guide to take you on a tour, or refer to the trained guides at each exhibit, who can explain what you are seeing. For a detailed explanation we recommend that you book a guided tour.
The Israel Museum offers free public tours with Museum admission. Tours are given in different languages, so please contact the Museum to find a specific tour.
Tours are interactive and include creative materials, stories, riddles and challenges, which bring the exhibits to life.
Advance reservations are required for all adult and student groups regardless of size. Children can enter the Museum for free on Tuesdays.
Our Top Choices: Current Temporary Exhibits:
1+1=Together
In these difficult times, we all want to be together, playing, creating, and spending time with others. Together there are more opportunities, and when people create art together, special things can be achieved. In this year’s Youth Wing exhibition 1+1=Together we invite you to a unique experience of collaboration – with each other, and with the artists participating in the show.
Picking Up The Pieces
At 3:08 pm on October 7th, 2023, the containers housing some 26,000 artifacts discovered at Tel Ashkelon suffered a direct hit in a missile attack from Gaza. These meticulously excavated and analyzed finds – spanning thousands of years, from Canaanites to Crusaders – had been arranged on shelves and gently packed in boxes and bags. These sherds had been marred by fresh breaks, melted plastic fused onto the pottery, and scorch marks. Now archeologists once again find themselves sifting through shattered remnants, this time from an all-too-recent layer of destruction, in an attempt to document their latest history and mend the broken pieces wherever possible.
Crafted By Bees
A rare bronze statue of the second-century Roman Emperor Hadrian, today part of the Museum’s permanent exhibition, was cast in antiquity using the lost-wax technique, in which beeswax was employed when creating the model for the bronze portrait. With the professional help of beekeeper Rafi Nir, Libertíny and the curators placed beehives in the Museum’s Art Garden. Inside were 3D-printed mesh models of the statue; internal cameras followed 100,000 bees while they built honeycombs on Hadrian’s head. The reconstructed portrait affords a fresh look at a singular exhibit in the Museum’s archaeological display.
