Reuven and Edith Gecht Museum in Haifa

The Reuven and Edith Gecht Museum, located in the Israeli city of Haifa, on the territory of the University of Haifa, is a local museum of archaeology. It was opened in 1984 and named in honor of the famous in the city Professor Reuven Gecht, the project of which was built a huge Elevator Silo Dagon, and his wife.

The collection of the museum, most of which was collected by Hecht, is dedicated to the history of archaeology from the Cretaceous period to the present day. Among the exhibits are sandals from 2000 years ago, samples of ancient dishes and weapons, a ship of the V century BC, which belonged to the Greeks and was found off the coast of Caesarea. In the new wing of the museum, opened in the autumn of 1998, there is an exhibition of paintings by French Impressionists, among which you can see valuable paintings by Monet and Van Gogh, and Israeli artists who wrote in the XIX-XX centuries.