Rockefeller Museum is a museum housing artifacts from excavations done since the late 19th century. Officially, it is called the Palestine Archaeological Museum, but is commonly known as the Rockefeller Museum from the outset due to the involvement of John D Rockefeller Jr who donated two million dollars for the establishment of the museum in 1925.
Rockefeller Museum was designed by Austen St Barbe Harrison drawing eastern and western elements into its design. The cornerstone was laid in 1930 and the museum opened to the public on 13 January, 1938. About the most important piece of antiquity that has been housed in the museum were the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were discovered in Qumran between 1947 and 1956.
Rockefeller Museum, Photo: Talmoryair, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License
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