Rockefeller Archeological Museum
The Rockefeller Archeological Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum, is an archaeology museum located in Jerusalem, next to Herod's Gate, that houses a large collection of artifacts unearthed in the excavations conducted in the British-ruled Mandatory Palestine, mainly in the 1920s and 1930s.Photo: Ranbar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: archaeological museum in East Jerusalem housing antiquities
- Also known as: “Jerusalem Archaeological Museum” and “Rockefeller Museum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pool of Bethesda and Dome of the Rock.
Pool of Bethesda
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
The Pool of Bethesda 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 Jerusalem, described as being near the Sheep Gate and surrounded by five covered colonnades or porticoes. Pool of Bethesda is situated 240 metres south of Rockefeller Archeological Museum.
Dome of the Rock
Place of worship
The Dome of the Rock is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. 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. Dome of the Rock is situated 630 metres south of Rockefeller Archeological Museum.
Herod’s Gate
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Herod's Gate is one of the seven open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It connects the Muslim Quarter inside of the old city to the eponymic Palestinian neighbourhood of Bab az-Zahra, situated just outside. Herod’s Gate is situated 220 metres west of Rockefeller Archeological Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Jerusalem and Muslim Quarter.
East Jerusalem
Photo: Papierdrache, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Jerusalem is the part of Jerusalem that belongs to the Palestinian territories. The walled Old City is formally part of it, but is discussed in its own article.
Muslim Quarter
Neighborhood
Photo: McKaby, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Muslim Quarter is one of the four sectors of the ancient, walled Old City of Jerusalem. It covers 31 hectares of the northeastern sector of the Old City.
Bab az-Zahra
Suburb
Photo: Sir kiss, Public domain.
Bab az-Zahra is an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem, north of the Old City. It is bordered by the American Colony to the north, Wadi al-Joz to the east, Herod's Gate and Damascus Gate on its south, and Mas'udiyyah and Mea Shearim to the west.
Rockefeller Archeological Museum
- Categories: archaeological museum, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Rockefeller Archeological Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متحف روكفلر”
- Armenian: “Պաղեստինի հնագիտական թանգարան”
- Armenian: “Ռոքֆելերի թանգարան”
- Azerbaijani: “Rokfeller Muzeyi”
- 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”
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