THE RENEWAL OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM is now getting underway:

Israel Museum starts $80 million renewal project
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS (Jerusalem Post)


The Israel Museum is launching an $80 million campus renewal project aimed at enhancing visitors' experience, the museum announced Sunday.

The project, which is being primarily funded by private donors, is the most comprehensive initiative undertaken by the museum since it opened its doors in 1965, and was inspired by the desire to enhance visitors' services on a campus that has grown tenfold over the past four decades.

The nearly three-year project will create new entrance facilities, an enclosed route of passage from the front of the campus to a relocated main entrance hall with access to all of the museum's curatorial collection wings, reorganized and expanded collection galleries and newly centralized temporary exhibition space.

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It's a "renewal" but not a "renovation." I'm not sure why. But it looks as though the price tag has gone up by $30 million since March of 2006. In any case, it sounds impressive.