Editing Dead Sea Scrolls (section)

==Museum exhibitions and displays==
[[File:Flickr - Israel Defense Forces - Photo of the Day, Admiral Mike Mullen and Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz Visit Shrine of the Book.jpg|thumb|right|Visitors examining Dead Sea Scrolls displayed at the [[Shrine of the Book]] in Jerusalem]]
[[File:Strip of the Copper Scroll from Qumran Cave 3 written in the Hebrew Mishnaic dialect, on display at the Jordan Museum, Amman.jpg|thumb|Strip of the Copper Scroll from Qumran Cave 3 written in the Hebrew Mishnaic dialect, on display at the Jordan Museum, Amman]]

Small portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls collections have been put on temporary display in exhibitions at museums and public venues around the world. The majority of these exhibitions took place in 1965 in the United States and the United Kingdom and from 1993 to 2011 in locations around the world. Many of the exhibitions were co-sponsored by either the Jordanian government (pre-1967) or the Israeli government (post-1967). Exhibitions were discontinued after 1965 due to the [[Six-Day War]] conflicts and have slowed down in post-2011 as the IAA works to digitize the scrolls and place them in permanent cold storage.

The majority of the Dead Sea Scrolls collection was moved to Jerusalem's [[Shrine of the Book]] (a part of the Israel Museum) after the building's completion in April 1965.<ref name="EC">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,898691,00.html|title=Art: Endless Cave in Jerusalem|date=30 April 1965|magazine=Time|access-date=10 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606092331/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,898691,00.html|archive-date=6 June 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> The museum falls under the auspices of the IAA. The permanent exhibition at the museum features a reproduction of the Great Isaiah Scroll, surrounded by reproductions of other fragments that include Community Rule, the War Scroll, and the Thanksgiving Psalms Scroll.<ref name=":2">{{cite web | url=http://www.imj.org.il/shrine_center/shrinemap.asp?bss=13765&bscp=12940 |title= Map of the Shrine |work=imj.org.il |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326110448/http://www.imj.org.il/shrine_center/shrinemap.asp?bss=13765&bscp=12940 |archive-date=26 March 2013}}</ref><ref name=":3s">{{cite web|url=http://lluker.faculty.ltss.edu/SOB-STM.htm |title=The Shrine of the Book and Second Temple Model |access-date=10 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504093641/http://lluker.faculty.ltss.edu/SOB-STM.htm |archive-date=4 May 2012}}</ref>

Some of the collection held by the Jordanian government prior to 1967 was stored in Amman rather than at the [[Rockefeller Archeological Museum|Palestine Archaeological Museum]] in East Jerusalem. As a consequence, that part of the collection remained in Jordanian hands under their Department of Antiquities. Since 2013, the part of the collection held by Jordan has been on display at [[The Jordan Museum]] in Amman.<ref name="The new Jordan Museum">{{cite web |date=11 May 2011 |title=The new Jordan Museum |url=http://www.ritmeyer.com/2011/05/11/the-new-jordan-museum/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519062637/http://www.ritmeyer.com/2011/05/11/the-new-jordan-museum/ |archive-date=19 May 2012 |access-date=11 June 2012 |publisher=ritmeyer.com}}</ref> Among the display items are artefacts from the Qumran site and the Copper Scroll.<ref name=":4">{{cite web|url=http://luhot.ru/news/263/72/v-stolitse-iordanii-ammane-otkryt-novyj-iordanskij-muzej-hranyaschij-vazhnejshie-artefakty-biblejskoj-arheologii|title=Visit at the Jordan Museum, July 2013 (blog with pictures; in Russian)|access-date=19 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023135413/http://luhot.ru/news/263/72/v-stolitse-iordanii-ammane-otkryt-novyj-iordanskij-muzej-hranyaschij-vazhnejshie-artefakty-biblejskoj-arheologii|archive-date=23 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>