Bible Lands Museum

The Bible Lands Museum

The exhibits of the Bible Lands Museum offer glimpses into life from prehistoric times into the Middle Ages. Artifacts include many forms of pottery; objects made of stone, bone, alabaster, faience, glass, and metal; and rare examples of ancient basketry, leather, and textiles.

The Museum's permanent exhibit, Tells and Tombs, uses artifacts, models, excavation photographs, and drawings to help visitors think about how objects were made and used in ancient times and how surviving materials are recovered by archaeologists today. The exhibit displays artifacts in archaeological and historical context and provides an opportunity to explore changes in form and function spanning 4,000 years.

A temporary exhibit, Words Made Visible, traces the origins of writing and the alphabet in the ancient Near East through inscribed artifacts and large scale replicas of inscriptions. Richly illustrated interpretive panels explain how cuneiform, hieroglyphs, and the alphabet work and examine the uses of writing in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Canaan, Israel, Greece, Rome, and the early Islamic world.

Two museum special programs:

I-Thou: Connections in Clay, a ceramics exhibit by PTS senior Chad Martin, has been extended to April 30.
From Galilee to Golgotha: A Passion Journey, a brief power point display drawing on the Museum’s collection of lantern slides of the Holy Land, 1900-1930.
 

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