Eretz Israel Museum

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Eretz Israel Museum: View over the 'Center for Man and His Work'
Ceramic pavilion with a plaque by the founder Walter Moses, 2012

The Eretz Israel Museum ( Hebrew מוּזֵיאוֹן אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל Mūsej'ōn Erez Jisra'el , German 'Museum of the Land of Israel ' ) is an archaeological and historical museum in the Ramat Aviv district of Tel Aviv , Israel.

The museum was founded in 1958 as the Ha'aretz Museum (מוּזֵיאוֹן הָאָרֶץ Mūsej'ōn ha'Arez , German 'Museum of the Land' ) founded in the Central European tradition as a state museum . The initiative went back to the foundation and estate of the German-born Israeli industrialist Walter Moses (1892–1955). Moses had tied the estate of his archaeological collection, which was valued at US $ 1 million, to the condition that a museum should be built to promote knowledge and research of the country through collections, exhibitions and scientific publications. Enthusiastic about the Jewish Wanderbund Blau-Weiß and the idealism widespread there, he saw in knowledge of art and history a means to promote the sense of the beauty of the Holy Land and for its history in connection with the surrounding cultures and a real bond between Israel and of all civilized peoples.

Glass pavilion, 1963

The museum opened its first exhibition building in the north of Tel Aviv on and around the Tell Qasile excavation mound and now houses a collection of archaeological, anthropological and historical exhibits. Werner Wittkower (1908–1997), brother of the art historian Rudolf Wittkower , provided the master plan for the design of the museum grounds and its buildings . In the Wittkower Glass Pavilion, the museum first showed the glass collection from 1958 onwards from the estate of Walter Moses, who immigrated to Palestine from Germany in 1926.

In the following years, the museum was expanded to include additional pavilions, each dedicated to a specific topic and area of ​​collection: the Kadman Numismatic Pavilion (1962, by Wittkower), the Pavilion for Ethnography and Folklore (1963), the Ceramic Pavilion (1966, by Wittkower), the Center for Man and His Works and Work (1982), the Nechuschthan Pavilion (1983, Wittkower), the Alexander Pavilion for Postal History and Philately (1998) and the Rothschild Center (2006). Also a planetarium (also by Wittkower) and the archaeological excavation site Tell Qasile , where a place of Philistine foundation was excavated, belong to the museum. During his tenure (1981–1991), director Rechavʿam Ze'evi changed the original museum name in 1988 to the current name.

  • A bronze designed by Maurice Ascalon at a Judaica exhibition at the Eretz Israel Museum

  • Amphorae excavated in Tell Qasile

  • Various mailboxes that the Israeli Post used over the years in the Alexander Pavilion for Postal History and Philately

Web links

Commons : Eretz Israel Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eretz Israel Museum: The Founding of the Museum (accessed October 2, 2012)
  2. ↑ David Tidhar, "ד"ר ולטר מוזס"(Entry: Dr. Walter Moses), in: אֶנְצִיקְלוֹפֶּדְיָה לְחֲלוּצֵי הַיִּשּׁוּב וּבוֹנָיו( Translit .: Enzīqlōpedjah le-Chalūzej ha-Jiššūv ū-Vōnaw [Encyclopedia of the Pioneers of Jiššūv and its Builders]), Vol. 8, p. 3084seq., here p. 3085 , accessed on January 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ David Tidhar, "ד"ר ולטר מוזס"(Entry: Dr. Walter Moses), in: אֶנְצִיקְלוֹפֶּדְיָה לְחֲלוּצֵי הַיִּשּׁוּב וּבוֹנָיו( translit .: Enzīqlōpedjah le-Chalūzej ha-Jiššūv ū-Vōnaw [Encyclopedia of the Pioneers of Jiššūv and its Builders]), Vol. 8, p. 3084seq., here p. 3084 , accessed on January 3, 2019.

Coordinates: 32 ° 6 ′ 11.4 "  N , 34 ° 47 ′ 43.3"  E