Rockefeller Archeological Museum

The Rockefeller Archeological Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum, is an archaeology located in , next to , that houses a large collection of artifacts unearthed in the excavations conducted in the British-ruled Mandatory Palestine, mainly in the 1920s and 1930s.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: archaeological museum located in East Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Palestine Archaeological Museum”, “PAM”, and “Rockefeller Museum”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pool of Bethesda and Dome of the Rock.

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The is referred to in John's Gospel in the Christian New Testament, in an account of Jesus healing a paralyzed man at a pool of water in , described as being near the Sheep Gate and surrounded by five covered colonnades or porticoes. is situated 240 metres south of Rockefeller Archeological Museum.

Mosque
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The is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the in the . It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically-attested religious structure to be built by a Muslim ruler and contains the earliest inscriptions proclaiming Islam and the prophet Muhammad. is situated 630 metres south of Rockefeller Archeological Museum.

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Herod's Gate is one of the seven open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It connects the inside of the old city to the eponymic Palestinian neighbourhood of , situated just outside. is situated 220 metres west of Rockefeller Archeological Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Jerusalem and Muslim Quarter.

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is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.

Neighborhood
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The is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled . It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.

Suburb
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is an Arab neighborhood in , north of the . It is bordered by the American Colony to the north, to the east, and on its south, and Mas'udiyyah and to the west.

Rockefeller Archeological Museum

Latitude
31.78362° or 31° 47′ 1″ north
Longitude
35.23584° or 35° 14′ 9″ east
Elevation
756 metres (2,480 feet)
Open location code
8G3QQ6MP+C8
Geo­Names ID
11874035
Wiki­data ID
Q1430185
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Rockefeller Archeological Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف روكفلر”
  • Armenian: “Պաղեստինի հնագիտական թանգարան”
  • Armenian: “Ռոքֆելերի թանգարան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rokfeller Muzeyi”
  • Bengali: “রকফেলার প্রত্নতাত্ত্বিক জাদুঘর”
  • Catalan: “Museu Rockefeller”
  • Chinese: “洛克斐勒博物館”
  • Czech: “Rockefellerovo muzeum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف روكفلر”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo Rockefeller”
  • Finnish: “Rockefeller-museo”
  • French: “Musée Rockefeller”
  • Georgian: “როკფელერის მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Rockefeller Museum”
  • German: “Rockefeller-Museum”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון רוקפלר”
  • Japanese: “ロックフェラー博物館”
  • Macedonian: “Рокфелерски музеј”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Rockefellera”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Rockefeller”
  • Russian: “Музей Рокфеллера”
  • Slovenian: “Rockefellerjev muzej”
  • Spanish: “Museo Rockefeller”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей Рокфеллера”
  • Urdu: “راک فیلر میوزیم”

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