Palestinian Museum set to open next year in West Bank

posted on: Aug 25, 2015

The biggest museum yet of Palestinian history, culture and art is to open its doors in the West Bank next year.

The Palestinian Museum’s inauguration ceremony is scheduled for May 15, organizers announced Monday, a symbolic date as it marks the Nakba, “catastrophe” in Arabic, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were dispersed into exile in the war that accompanied Israel’s creation in 1948.

The 3,800-square-meter museum, located north of Jerusalem in Birzeit, aims to serve as a “link between Palestinians in historic Palestine and those living in the diaspora,” a statement said.

Source: www.haaretz.com