The Bible Lands Museum presents the history of humanity through one of the most important collections of artifacts from the Ancient Near East. On display are the great civilizations that rose and flourished in this region - Sumer, Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Canaan, Persia, Greece and Rome, who were responsible for the advancements of Western civilization, cultures which developed our understanding of science and technology, language and writing, economics and commerce, faith and religion and material culture. The museum opened in May 1992.
A female security guard stands near dolls depicting Albert Einstein and David Ben Gurion as she takes a break at a kiosk outside the Bible Lands Museum armed with an assault rifle.
A triple tongued mifletzet, Hebrew for monster, slide, stands in the Rabinowitz Garden at a busy corner in the Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood. Better known as Monster Park, it consists of a sandy plot on which the sculpture is situated as well as a green space with mature trees and wooden picnic tables. French artist Niki de Saint Phalle created the grotesque and friendly monster in 1972, commissioned by longtime and legendary Jerusalem Mayor, Teddy Kollek, himself a resident of Kiryat Hayovel.
