Palestinian Museum opens—with no exhibition or collection

The Palestinian Museum in the town of Birzeit, north of Jerusalem, is being inaugurated today (18 May), even though the institution is currently without a collection. Its director, Mahmoud Hawari—a research associate at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, and a visiting academic at the British Museum in London—was only appointed two weeks ago.
The museum, which comprises 3,500 sq. m of exhibition and educational space, focuses on the history and culture of Palestine f