Jerusalem’s iconic citadel has opened its revamped museum after a three-year, $50 million makeover that included a restoration of its signature minaret.
Visitors stand near a scaled model of Jerusalem's golden Dome of the Rock in a newly redesigned gallery at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, May 22, 2023. Today, the former castle serves as a museum dedicated to the city’s 3,000-year history. The Tower of David, the ancient fortress on the western edge of the Old City, contains remnants of successive fortifications built one atop the other dating back over two millennia.
The new entrance pavilion nearing completion realigns the museum’s flow from the plaza outside the Jaffa Gate through the castle’s interior, making the museum a “gateway to Jerusalem,” said Eilat Lieber, the museum’s director. Exhibits focus on themes of the city’s long history, rather than any detailed traipse through Jerusalem’s many centuries of successive conquest, occupation, destruction and reconstruction.It has exhibits explaining Jerusalem’s significance to the three monotheistic faiths whose followers have prayed and shed each others’ blood here over successive centuries.
It makes scant mention of Jordan’s control of east Jerusalem, including the Old City, from 1949 until Israel captured it in the 1967 Mideast war.
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