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The Jewish Canon
Museum of the Jewish People
at Beit Hatfutsot A journey through the ongoing
story of the Jewish people
faiths, through interactive exhibitions, timeless culture as the distinctive connection bonding
By Leoni Jesner
artifacts and multimedia technology. Jews around the world. The exhibition invites
“The children of your servants will continue, the visitor to relate to the story through his and
and their descendants will be established before her own unique experiences of Jewish life.
you.”(Psalms 102) The New Core Exhibition
Construction of the new museum complex
commenced in 2011; nine years later the Inspiration, planning and
here does the story begin and where museum’s new 66,000ft² interactive, state-of- inception
does it end? This is just one of the the-art Core Exhibition will open in fall 2020. The new Core Exhibition is a collaborative
questions asked at the Museum of Renovated and re-imagined in accordance effort between a diverse team of experts,
the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot, with three guiding principles: pluralism and with Dr. Orit Shaham Gover at the helm. Her
Wwhich reveals 4,000 years of Jewish diversity, creativity and renewal, and relevancy tenure as chief curator of Beit Hatfutsot began
history, from antiquity to the present day. In and personal identification, the exhibition in 2012, although her long history with the
a celebration of culture and creativity, and a will unravel the unique and ongoing story institution stretches back to the museum’s
pluralistic narrative of the Jewish faith, the of the Jewish people. The narrative follows inception in 1978, when she started working
museum’s innovative approach to storytelling the journey of the Jews as a people among only three months into its opening to work
engages some 200,000 visitors a year, of all peoples and the role of Jewish identity and in the education department. She is joined
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