But, as coming under controversy, as critics say, this temple was constructed on the site of a 16th Century mosque destroyed by Hindu nationalists in the early 90s.
Sjarel Ex, the museum's director, could have built a storage facility in a suburb, but wanted a way to keep the trove on site, and to open it to the public.
Many of the Arab states, who had just recently won independence themselves, declared war on Israel in an effort to establish a unified Arab Palestine where all of British Palestine had been.