A socio-political contemporary art museum occupying a building that sat directly on the armistice line between Israeli and Jordanian Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967. The building itself is the statement: one side faced Israel, one side faced Jordan, and both sides show the marks of that division. Today the museum uses contemporary art to address questions of coexistence, conflict, and human rights, staging rotating exhibitions from Israeli and international artists.
The museum sits at the edge of East and West Jerusalem near Nablus Road, at the point where the old "Green Line" seam ran through the city. For anyone interested in the politics and divided history of Jerusalem beyond the religious sites, the Museum on the Seam is the most direct way to engage with it. Exhibitions change several times a year and the programming is often excellent.