The Israeli government has allocated approximately $6 million, to be combined with another $12 million to be raised by Hebrew University, for a museum to house the world’s largest collection of Albert Einstein documents. The museum will be built on the university’s Givat Ram campus in Jerusalem.

Einstein, one of the founding fathers of Hebrew University, was a nonresident governor of the institution. Einstein, arguably one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time, died in 1955, at the age of 76. He had bequeathed his archives to the university. Curator Roni Grosz said its 85,000 items make it the world’s most extensive collection of Einstein documents.

Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity revolutionized the field by introducing new ways of looking at the movement of objects in space and time. He also made major contributions to quantum mechanics theory. Einstein won the Nobel physics prize in 1921.