Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Museum of Natural History is a museum in Palestine which is located on Mar Andreas campus of Bethlehem University in Al-Karkafa (not the main campus of Bethlehem University). Palestine Museum of Natural History is situated nearby to The Walled Off Hotel, as well as near Caritas Baby Hospital.- Opening hours: Monday—Friday 9:00 AM—4:00 PM
- Email: info@palestinenature.org
- Type: Museum
- Address: Mar Andreas campus of Bethlehem University in Al-Karkafa (not the main campus of Bethlehem University)
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Palestine Museum of Natural History and Rachel’s Tomb.
Palestine Museum of Natural History
Museum
The Palestine Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine. Founded in 2013, it opened to the public in 2017.
Rachel’s Tomb
Place of worship
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Rachel's Tomb is a site revered as the burial place of the Biblical matriarch Rachel. The site is also referred to as the Bilal bin Rabah mosque. The tomb is held in esteem by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Rachel’s Tomb is situated 340 metres west of Palestine Museum of Natural History.
Caritas Baby Hospital
Hospital
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The Caritas Baby Hospital is the only purely pediatric hospital in the Palestinian territories. It falls into the jurisdiction of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and is sustained by the Catholic non-profit organizations Kinderhilfe Bethlehem and Aiuto Bambini Betlemme in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Caritas Baby Hospital is situated 260 metres north of Palestine Museum of Natural History.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bethlehem and Homat Shmuel.
Bethlehem
Bethlehem is a small city located some 10 km south of the Old City of Jerusalem within the West Bank, in an "Area A" zone administered by the Palestinian Authority.
Homat Shmuel
Suburb
Har Homa, officially Homat Shmuel, is an Israeli settlement in southern East Jerusalem, near the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour. The settlement is also referred to as "Jabal Abu Ghneim", which is the Arabic name of the hill.
Beit Jala
Town
Photo: Gilabrand, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beit Jala is a Palestinian Christian town in the Bethlehem Governorate of Palestine, in the West Bank. Beit Jala is located 10 km 10 km south of Jerusalem, on the western side of the Hebron road, opposite Bethlehem, at 825 meters altitude.
Palestine Museum of Natural History
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.71824° or 31° 43′ 6″ northLongitude
35.20547° or 35° 12′ 20″ eastOperator
professor Mazin Qumsieh , Bethlehem universityOpen location code
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In Other Languages
From French to Ukrainian—“Palestine Museum of Natural History” goes by many names.
- French: “Musée Palestinien d’Histoire Naturelle”
- Hebrew: “המוזיאון הפלסטיני לתולדות הטבע”
- Russian: “Палестинский музей естественной истории”
- Spanish: “Museo Palestino de Historia Natural”
- Ukrainian: “Палестинський музей природничої історії”
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