"See Relics and the Dead Sea Scrolls As the country's largest cultural institution, the Israel Museum is ranked among the world’s leading art and archaeology museums. Founded in 1965, itpresents encyclopedic collections of international, Israeli, and contemporary art and photography,including works dating from prehistory to the present day. The museum also has the most extensive collection of biblical and Holy Land archaeology. It's perhaps best known for the Shrine of the Book—designed by Armand Bartos and Frederick Kieslerandwhich houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest biblical textsin the world—along with rare early medieval biblical manuscripts."