THE ISRAEL MUSEUM is gearing up to celebrate its 40th birthday:

Israel Museum marks 40th (Jerusalem Post)
By MEIR RONNEN

The Israel Museum has proudly announced a year-long series of special exhibitions and programs to mark its 40th anniversary.

The eight-part exhibition series, entitled "Beauty and Sanctity," is drawn largely from the museum's holdings and includes some notable recent acquisitions, as well as a few special loans of visiting masterworks from major institutions abroad. The works on loan will reflect the range of disciplines represented in the museum's collections, which span art, archaeology, and Judaica and Jewish ethnography. In some of the shows, these disparate sections will be brought together.

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The exhibitions described are heavily weighted toward the modern rather than the ancient.