Peter Wik

Peter Wik has been traveling the world since childhood. He has visited over 60 countries and some of them up to a hundred times. Peter is the owner of Relasian Travel & Event based in Stockholm, Sweden but constantly on the road. Peter is a foodie and loves to try new food around the world. Here he shares his favorite gems from places high and low around the world to make you go local yet being global. Peter lives in Stockholm and Paris.

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2013-11-30

The Israel Museum - One of the highlights of Jerusalem

The Israel Museum in Jerusalem is often missed by visitors to Jerusalem or their tourist bus just makes a brief stop to see the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is such a pity that people miss out of this place! It is one of the top museums world wide up there with the Louvre, British Museum or similar with a collection of over 500.000 pieces.
The museum opened to public in 1965 and the collection is based on gifts from Jewish People from all over the world. Here you find everything form archeological finds from the region to modern art from Israel and other places. What is the biggest surprise to most is that it also has an excellent collection of precolombian art from South America, a big collection of  beautiful Impressionist paintings, synagogues from all over the world moved here, a whole patrician apartment from Paris etc.
On this picture you see a painting of Damian Hearst and the famous statue of the "Boy from south Tel Aviv" by
Ohad Meromi.
The Museum is located close to Knesset on Ruppin Boulevard. Check with the opening hours with the webpage or call ahead as the opening hours change a lot during holiday.
http://www.english.imjnet.org.il/page_1465

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2013-09-26

Dead Sea Scrolls - Jerusalem

In Jerusalem at the Israel Museum you can find the beautiful hall of the Dead Sea Scrolls! These 2000 years old scroll mostly in fragments were found between 1947 and 1956. The first scrolls were found by a beduin and then over 950 scrolls have been found around the caves in Qumran near the Dead Sea. These fragments have been but together to about 850 scrolls and many of them are exposed here. Most of them are written in Hebrew but also in Aramic and Greek. They fall into 3 different categories: biblical, apocryphal and sectarian. Thanks to these scrolls, our knowledge of Jewish society during the Hellenistic and Roman times has greatly increased.
Before you visit the Israel Museum you should check the opening hours as they follow the Jewish calendar and opening times changes a lot.

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