Israel Museum in Tel Aviv

Sunbathing on the beach of Tel Aviv you do not even suspect that just 10 minutes drive in the north of the city, is one of the largest museums in Israel - a real "museum park"!

There are pavilions of ethnography, folklore, ceramics, glass products, the history of postal Israel, ancient and modern numismatics. On the vast territory of the museum you will come across the existing archaeological excavations of the ancient Philistine settlement of Tel Casile, a sundial park of different eras, a reconstructed oil press, a real mill, an ancient water pipe, ancient mosaics, the first railway and even a planetarium. The craft center employs glass blowers, weavers and potters. And the market of the beginning of the last century surprises with permanent and shifting exhibitions.

Tel Kasile - archaeological excavations of an ancient Philistine settlement, first built in the XI century BC. e. at the mouth of the Yarkon River, by the Philistines. They came to the country as foreign invaders and are referred to in the scrolls of ancient Egypt as "the peoples of the sea." This is the first archaeological excavation of the Israel Antiquities Department, begun in 1948, shortly after the establishment of the state. Archaeologists have discovered 12 layers of culture here. In the sacred part of the Philistine city are three temples, built successively on the ruins of each other.

Glass, as a material for the manufacture of vessels and jewelry, has a centuries-old history. Interestingly, the history of the Eretz Israel Museum began with a collection of glass. She's special! It is the largest collection of glass products in the Middle East.
The exhibition consists of three sections representing three stages in the history of glass production:
1. the period before the production of blown glass,
2. the era of blown glass production of the Roman and Byzantine periods,
3. blown glass of the Islamic period.
In the glass pavilion you will see unusual exhibits: a tabletop from Caesarea, made of mosaics of different types of glass using gold plates; modern glass objects of art and, even, a glass tractor in real size!

In the pavilion of Jewish Folklore, a collection of Hanukkah candlesticks from around the world is striking.

And in the adjacent pavilion “Man and his work”, ancient methods of weaving, grinding grain and baking bread, making jewelry and pottery are demonstrated.
Next is the hall, which is a reconstructed stone age mine. Here is detailed information about the production of bronze in distant centuries.

The coin pavilion is a history of money circulation, a collection of coins and an exhibition about the Valero family, the first bank to open in Jerusalem in 1840.
Baron Rothschild and his family's contribution to the first Jewish settlements of the late 19th century in the Promised Land during Ottoman rule.

A large selection of children's pavilions and constantly changing temporary exhibitions, a cafe and a park area with grass and shady trees - all this will be remembered on your visit to the museum park!

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