“The Israel Museum is one of the finest in the Middle East — if you can figure out how to get in and find the art.” Museum director James S. Snyder sees an $80 million expansion and renovation project, due to be completed in 2009, “as the solution to deep irritation over how the Israel Museum’s rich and varied collections … seem almost to be hidden in a maze of different entryways. Yet the original architecture is itself an admired work of art that no one wanted to mar.”