Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem

Client:	Jerusalem Foundation
Location:	Jerusalem , Mandelbaum Gate
Architect:	Dani Lansky
Curator:	Raphie Etgar
Completion:	1999

The Museum is situated in a building constructed in 1932 by the Arab-Christian architect, Anton Baramki. While Jerusalem was divided (1948-1967), the building served as a military outpost (the Turjeman Post) which stood on the seam line between Israel and Jordan across from Mandelbaum Gate, the only crossing point between the two sides of the divided city. The Museum on the Seam was established in 1999 with the generous support of the von Holtzbrinck family of Germany, through the Jerusalem Foundation and by the initiative of the designer and curator of the Museum, Raphie Etgar. The museum is used as an "avant-garde" opportunity for expressing conflict and resolution.

The Firm provided the coordination and planning and supervision of construction as well as the establishment of the permanent displays, panels, graphics in the building, known as the "fortified command post".