Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Dead Sea Scrolls

Complete waste of time and money! Spent $18 ($20 during weekends) and about 2.5 hours in this exhibition at The Arts House. We were fooled by the splendid write up in the papers into believing that this is all about the scrolls. Well, there are only 4 tiny fragments on display.

The exhibition is housed only on the 2nd floor of The Arts House. There are only 3 small galleries which loosely categorised into the Scrolls room, Book room and People room. The scrolls room, well, is where the scrolls and watnots are. The Book room where the books are. And the People room where the people are. There is no proper write up / intro / explanation of the exhibits which are arranged randomly.

The guide was saying that the majority of the scrolls found are not related to religon but strangely, the focus of the exhibition is on religon. i had expected to see more on the daily aspects of living in the era.

Really. Don't waste your time. This is the worst exhibition i've been to so far.

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