The Israel Museum, Jerusalem welcomes you to a year-long series of special exhibitions and programs to mark its 40th anniversary. Beginning in January and continuing throughout 2005, the eight-part exhibition series, entitled "Beauty and Sanctity," is drawn largely from the Museum's holdings and includes notable recent acquisitions, underscoring the remarkable breadth and richness of the collection that the Museum has developed during its first forty years.
These exhibitions will also be enhanced by important loans of visiting masterworks from major peer institutions worldwide. Works on loan reflect the range of disciplines represented in the Museum's collections, which span Art, Archaeology, and Judaica and Jewish Ethnography.