Sentences with phrase «active archaeology site»

Today, the cave and its 6,400 meters of passages serves as both an active archaeology site and a tourist destination.

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Among the acquisition highlights during the past two decades have been: in Archaeology, the Renée and Robert Belfer Collection of Ancient Glass and Greek and Roman Antiquity and the Demirjian Family European Bronze Age Collection; in Jewish Art and Life, an illuminated Mishneh Torah of Maimonides (ca. 1457), acquired jointly with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the restored 18th Century Tzedek ve - Shalom Synagogue from Paramaribo, Suriname; and, in the Fine Arts, Nicolas Poussin's «Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem» (1625), Rembrandt van Rijn's «St. Peter in Prison» (1631), the Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art, Jackson Pollock's «Horizontal Composition» (1949), the Noel and Harriette Levine Collection of Photography, and Gerhard Richter's «Abstraktes Bild» (1997); together with an active and ongoing program of acquisitions in contemporary art, including site - specific commissions by such artists as Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, and Doug and Mike Starn.