Rockefeller Museum

The museum is temporarily closed to visitors due to the security situation. The Rockefeller Museum, the first archaeological museum in the country, was built in the 1930s and is named after the man who donated the money for its construction, the American benefactor John D. Rockefeller Jr. The exhibition opened to the public in 1938 and is arranged in chronological order. Its story traces the history of the land from the prehistoric periods, more than a million years ago, until the year 1700 CE! The exhibition features rare artifacts that are foundational to Israeli archaeology.