Israel is a land rich in museums, but rare in the Holy Land (or anywhere else, for that matter) are museums devoted entirely to the dissemination of the ideals of tolerance, mutual understanding and coexistence.

Bucking the dominant trend is the Museum on the Seam, a Jerusalem museum devoted to modern art which addresses strife, war and conflict resolution, one inscrutable German art film at a time. The "Seam" in question is one imbued with multiple disparate meanings; the building is on Highway One, which was constructed over the line which formerly separated Israeli Jerusalem from Jordanian Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967, and also straddles the division between ultra-Orthodox Jewish Jerusalem and Arab Jerusalem.

The museum's exhibits are culled from artists worldwide, and include everything from sculpture to graffiti to film. The political thought on display rarely departs from textbook anarcho-leftism, which can be off-putting to visitors who are not anarcho-leftists. Bountiful slogan T-shirts and bumper stickers are, of course, available in the gift shop.