Museo molto interessante con opere di arte contemporanea che raccontano la complessità sociopolitica della città. Sul tetto c'è una caffetteria con una vista strepitosa.
Museo on the Seam
A cavallo della linea geografica e sociale che divide ebrei e arabi e Gerusalemme Ovest da Gerusalemme Est, il Museum on the Seam non si fa intimidire da questioni di significato politico esplosivo.
Al contrario, la missione esplicita del Museo è di “utilizzare l’arte come linguaggio senza limiti, al fine di portare l’opinione pubblica a discutere su controversi argomenti sociali”.
Il Museum on the Seam è l’unico museo di questo tipo in tutto Israele. È un museo socio-politico, che mostra il meglio dell’arte contemporanea.
Il museo è stato istituito nel 1999 con il supporto della famiglia tedesca dei Von Holtzbrinck. Si trova in un edificio costruito nel 1932 dall’architetto Arabo-Cristiano Anton Baramki, situato sulla strada Route 1, lungo il confine che dal 1948 al 1967 ha diviso Israele e Giordania.
Fino alla conquista israeliana di Gerusalemme Est, avvenuta con la Guerra dei Sei Giorni nel 1967, la struttura dove oggi si trova il museo è stata utilizzata come un avamposto militare Giordano.
Il terrazzo del museo offre una magnifica vista su tutta Gerusalemme. Organizzando mostre ed esibizioni che riflettono la realtà riguardo i più importanti temi relativi allo status di Gerusalemme – diritti umani, ansia emotiva, relazione tra spazio personale e pubblico, ecc – il museo è diventato una specie di think tank vibrante, inflessibile e sempre pronto a commentare in modo rilevante lo stato delle cose in Israele.
La mostra “Beyond Memory”, ad esempio, esplora i futuri scenari al fine di imparare a non ripetere gli sbagli commessi in passato. La mostra è composta dalle opere di 24 artisti di fama internazionale come Christian Boltansky e Bill Viola.
Il museo è facilmente accessibile con il tram (fermata Shivtei Yisrael) e offre comunque un parcheggio auto. Sono disponibili anche dei tour guidati.
Link per i biglietti:
http://www.mots.org.il/Eng/Contact/BookingForm.asp
Basato su 47 recensioni dei viaggitori“Interessante”
“Nice idea”
We went to the Museum on the Seam, at the join of Palestinian Arab East Jerusalem and Jewish West Jerusalem. And indeed we got there on the bus from West Jerusalem via Ultra-religious Jewish neighbourhoods, and left on the light railway, full of Arabs and Jews travelling together. My friend said the railway...
altroWe went to the Museum on the Seam, at the join of Palestinian Arab East Jerusalem and Jewish West Jerusalem. And indeed we got there on the bus from West Jerusalem via Ultra-religious Jewish neighbourhoods, and left on the light railway, full of Arabs and Jews travelling together. My friend said the railway carriage felt like an extension of the exhibition! The museum is a place that wants to stress living together and it does succeed in this. The staff are both Jewish and Arab and very helpful. There is a lovely rooftop cafe with an amazing view over the old and new cities. The exhibition we saw (now finished) had a very simple message about Jews, Christians and Moslems living together. Perhaps too simple? But perhaps not, since so many people today seem to find this very difficult. Good for the museum for trying. Perhaps the best part of the exhibition was the short film taken in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre which stressed that while pilgrims may come there for spiritual uplift, the monks of the different denominations are often at odds with each other. The photography here was wonderful. I look forward to seeing other exhibitions here.
Mostra meno“A Few Shortcomings”
Regrettably, my visit to this museum fell flat for a number of reasons. I was so excited to visit while in Jerusalem, as I love contemporary art, but though this museum preaches inclusivity and social awareness I found it sorely lacking. I'll keep this short- the museum claims to be on the "Seam" of Muslim...
altroRegrettably, my visit to this museum fell flat for a number of reasons. I was so excited to visit while in Jerusalem, as I love contemporary art, but though this museum preaches inclusivity and social awareness I found it sorely lacking. I'll keep this short- the museum claims to be on the "Seam" of Muslim and Jewish sections of Jerusalem, and yet all of the museum descriptions were in English and Hebrew, without accessibility to Arabic speakers. There were no artists from the Arab world, and most exhibits were from the West- which would be fine, except that the majority of pieces involved female oppression in the Arab world and veiling in religious traditions, particularly Islam. This is an important issue, and the art was very impactful, but this discourse came from western artists and I couldn't help but feel that Arab women were left out of the conversation, and were instead just used as a voiceless subject throughout the museum. As someone who was excited to attend this museum, and still enjoyed my visit but just has a few remarks, I would love to see this institution improve its ability to represent the "Seam" with a bit more thought, perhaps by adding Arabic descriptions and including Arab artists more in their galleries alongside Israeli and western creators.
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