The Rockefeller Museum

This museum is in East Jerusalem and faces the north east corner of the Old City wall. It was built in 1938 of pink and white limestone and was originally called the Palestine Archaeological Museum. Its octagonal tower rises over a central courtyard and pool around which the exhibition halls are located.

This museum was built with a fund of two million dollars granted in 1927 by John D. Rockefeller. It houses important antiquities of ancient Israel and has a library of archaeology and ancient history of the Middle East. In addition to exhibition space there are study galleries, offices, an auditorium, a library, workrooms, a photographic studio, laboratories and storage rooms.

The museum, standing in about 10 acres of land, is now administered by the Israel Museum.