The Israel Museum celebrates its jubilee by central exhibition based on Yuval Noah Harari’s best-selling book ” A Brief History of Human Kind”. The exhibition shows significant chapters from the book and uses the museum’s collections   including archaeological artifacts alongside modern art, in tribute to the museum’s divers scope.

An odyssey into the evolution of humankind, from prehistory to modern times.   The exhibition presents pivotal objects that illuminate the unfolding of civilization – from the first signs of the use of fire some 800,000 years ago and the first human-made tools, through the earliest evidence of the agricultural revolution, the invention of writing, and the earliest coins, up to Albert Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and the revolution it caused in our worldview. Interweaving rare archaeological finds and historically significant objects with contemporary artworks, the exhibition exposes in a thought-provoking way the relationship between the past and the present.

Curator: Tania Coen-Uzzielli