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| Established | 1999 |
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| Location | Jerusalem |
| Type | Art and politics |
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Museum on the Seam is a socio-political contemporary art museum in Jerusalem, Israel.
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| Established | 1999 |
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| Location | Jerusalem |
| Type | Art and politics |
| Website | www |
Museum on the Seam is a socio-political contemporary art museum in Jerusalem, Israel.
Founded in 1999, Museum on the Seam is housed in a neo-classical building designed by Andoni Baramki, a Palestinian Arab architect who built it as a family residence. [1] The property was appropriated by Israel after 1948. According to the museum website, the museum focuses on "controversial social issues for public discussion,” with exhibitions on social issues like the right to protest, the decline of Western hegemony, and state/private home relationships. [2]
Museum on the Seam has been cited by The New York Times as one of the world's 29 cultural 'one must-see-before-I-die destinations.' [3] [4] According to its public presentations, it brings social and moral change in face of a complex and conflict-ridden reality.
The museum was established by Raphie Etgar. It has been supported for decades by the Holtzbrink Family Foundation. [3] through the Jerusalem Foundation. Leading contemporary artists have shown their work at this museum, including Anselm Kiefer, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Wim Wenders, Thomas Hirschhorn, Gilbert & George, Paul McCarthy, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Douglas Gordon, William Kentridge, Santiago Sierra, Alfredo Jaar, Edward Burtynsky, Yael Bartana, Michal Rovner, Dani Karavan, Moshe Gershuni, Micha Ullman, Joshua Neustein, Larry Abramson, Sigalit Landau, Tsibi Geva, Menashe Kadishman, Miki Kratsman, Gilad Ophir, Michal Na'aman and many others. [5]
The house was built to serve as his home by the Christian Arab architect Andoni Baramki in 1932, on one dunam of property purchased from the Turjman family. [1] The Baramki family was forced to flee as refugees, after a stray bullet almost killed the architect's wife while she was sitting in her living room, [6] during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight [7] during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
The Baramki home was turned into an Israeli military outpost, called the "Tourjman Post" [8] situated on the border or no man's land between Israel and Jordan overlooking the Mandelbaum Gate, which served as the only passage between the two parts of the divided city at the time. [1] The finely wrought window arches were filled with concrete to form turrets. [8] During the battles of the 1967 War, the house suffered hits from shells and bullets which left their marks on the building and are apparent to this day. [8]
At war's end, the Baramkis crossed over with their keys and title-deeds but were rebuffed. [8] As was the case with the Turjmans, [1] all efforts by Andoni and his son Gabi Baramki, longtime President of Birzeit University in the West Bank, to return to and repossess the family home through recourse in Israeli courts, failed. The reasons were various: it was claimed initially that the site was required for military security, then that it was in a hazardous state, in need of substantial repairs, and finally that it fell under Israeli laws in a united Jerusalem, and, despite their presence, the family were classified as absentee property owners. [8] Gabi Baramki was allowed only one visit, [7] in 1999. [9] and Baramki[ which? ] regarded it as "stolen property". [6]
In 1981 the military outpost was renovated and renamed as the "Tourjman Post Museum" commemorating the reunification of the city. The museum mounted exhibits of the guns, mortars and other weapons used in its defense. [8]
In 1999 the building underwent change and a new permanent exhibition, calling for tolerance and mutual understating between people in the region, was displayed. On the day of its dedication, it was opened ostensibly as a site for 'peace, tolerance,... dialogue, understanding and coexistence'.[ citation needed ]
Since 2005, the building serves as a home to the Museum on the Seam - a socio-political contemporary art museum dedicated to dialogue and mutual understanding.[ citation needed ]
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