Slide Title
Preview
Date
3-1980
Description
This unique structure is the Shrine of the Book, a wing of the Israel Museum that is home to the Dead Sea Scrolls. The dome has been used in several science fiction due to it’s unique design which is based on imagery from the Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light Against the Songs of Darkness.
Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Creator 2 Dates
1910-2005
Creator 2 Role
Architect
Creator 3 Dates
1890-1965
Creator 3 Role
Architect
Creator 4 Role
Architect
Subject Headings
Architecture -- Museum architecture;
Country Name
Israel
City Name
Jerusalem
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chet; Bartos, Armand Phillip; Kiesler, Frederick John; and Heller, Gezer, "Jerusalem: Shrine of the Book" (1980). Smolski Images. 735.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/735
Keywords
dead sea scrolls, modernism, architecture, museums, Israel, domes
Notes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_of_the_Book
(accessed 1 Nov 2011)
http://www.english.imjnet.org.il/htmls/page_1477.aspx?c0=14909&bsp=14393
(accessed 1 Nov 2011)