In Gaza, a museum filled with history ‘picked up’ along the way
Sep 14, 2021
3 minutes
On a small hilltop in central Gaza, a mile and a half from the Israeli border, lies a gateway to the past, and, some say, a modern-day cultural safe haven.
At the Al Qarara Cultural Museum, artifacts from six millennia stand side by side: Canaanite pottery, Roman coins, Byzantine mosaics, Crusader swords, turn-of-the-19th-century farming equipment, copper cookware, and traditional embroidered Palestinian thobe dresses.
Today, like any day, families, university students, and schoolchildren on a field trip and the odd passerby stroll past the displays
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