To further advance our mission and accommodate our growing presence, activities, and importance, we have set our sights on building a campus, the Minve, that will feature a Hebrew museum besides housing the Academy. In 2012 the Israeli government embraced our initiative, resolving to establish a national home for the Hebrew language in Jerusalem. The Minve promises to be a national landmark and a global hub for the living Hebrew language.
The Municipality of Jerusalem has earmarked a piece of land for the Minve in Jerusalem’s National Quarter, near the Knesset, the Supreme Court, the National Library, and the Israel Museum – a prestigious, meaningful location that attests to the significance of our mission and positions the Minve to become a cultural destination of distinction for both Israelis and visitors from abroad.
The new, state-of-the-art facility will expand and strengthen our interaction with the public, through increased programming and through the world’s first museum devoted to the Hebrew language – its history, evolution, and revival as a native tongue. Through interactive exhibits with visual, aural, and experiential components, the museum will engage visitors both intellectually and emotionally, reflecting the centrality of Hebrew to Israeli and Jewish life and culture.
The noun מִנְוֶה (minve) chosen to designate our future home is a neologism derived from the word נָוֶה, which means both ‘beautiful, pleasant’ and ‘home, abode’; מִנְוֶה belongs to the same pattern as the nouns מַחֲנֶה (‘camp’) and מִצְפֶּה (‘lookout, observatory’). Professor Moshe Bar-Asher, former president of the Academy, coined the word.
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