In the Tel Aviv Museum you can find routine and changing exhibitions of modern art, photography, architecture and design, drawing and print, and art from the 16 hundred AD until nowadays.

The exhibitions are placed in the museum building (in Shaul Hamelech Street) and in Helena Rubinstein House (near Habima Theatre and Heichal Hatarbut). The routine exhibitions include works of Israeli well known painters and sculptors from the 1920′s until today. The routine exhibitions include European art from the 16-19 hundreds AD (impressionism and postimpressionism), and American art from the 20 hundred AD.

The graphic collection of Tel-Aviv Museum includes more then 20,000 prints and drawings. Among the special art collections in the museum you can see early drawings of the artist Archipenco and a special work of Chagall (a work that Chagall himself donated to the museum years ago before Tel-Aviv Museum was established). In Helena Rubinstein House you can find the very well known collection of the miniature rooms of Helena Rubinstein.

Addresses and Phone Numbers:

Tel-Aviv Museum Central Building

27 Shaul Hamelech St.

Tel-Aviv

Tel:

+972-3-6961297

Helena Rubinstein House

6 Tarsat St.

Tel-Aviv

Tel:

+972-3-5287196

Nowadays the place is a museum, archive, and library.

Bialik had a strong connection to Tel-Aviv and he built his house in 1926 near the house of the municipality of Tel-Aviv then. Bialik died in 1934. In 1937 his widow decided to donate the house to The Association of Bialik House, which their job was to take care of the house. After a short time the house was renovated and the place was opened for the public.

Today the street is named after him- Bialik street, and the place holds concerts and events.

In the house you can find drawings and sculptures that Bialik had. Those works was made by Israeli artists like Nahum Gutman and Shmuel Ovadyahu. In the house you can also find the legendary clock that plays every hour the national anthem of Israel (“Htikva”), handwritings of Bialik, and a collection of letters that children wrote to Bialik. In the house you can also see ceramic tiles that describe Jewish stories from the Torah.

Opening Hours:

Sundays-Thursdays 09:00-17:00

Saturdays 11:00-14:00

Address:

22 Bialik St.

Tel-Aviv

Tel: +972-3-5254530

Pola, and her husband David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel, bought the house and lived there for many years. The place was enlarged in 1946 and was renovated again in 1960. The house was used to be their permanent house until they moved to their shed in Sde-Boker (in the Negev).

Afterwards the house was used to be their home again along with their shed in Sde-Boker. Ben-Gurion donated the house to the state of Israel in his testament. In this testament he also wrote that the house should be available for the public and be used as an institution for reading and studying. The house was opened for the public in 1974.

Ben-Gurion House is in a street that used to be called Keren Kayemet blvd and now carries his name: Ben-Gurion street.

The house is an important site in Tel Aviv.

The furniture in the house is arranged as it was when Pola and David Ben-Gurion lived there. You can also see in the house souvenirs and other historic items from the period that Ben-Gurion was the prime minister of Israel.

Opening Hours:

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 08:00-15:00

Monday: 08:00-17:00

Friday: 08:00-13:00

Saturday: 11:00-14:00

Address:

17 Ben-Gurion St.

Tel-Aviv

Tel: +972-3-5221010, +972-3-5224925

Fax: +972-3-5247293

The museum was established in 1958 near Tel-Kasila (a place where important archeology items and findings was found from the 11 hundred AD and from the 12 hundred AD).

In the museum you will find different sites witch deal with varied issues, like: judaica, archeology, folklore, historic culture, ethnography, and Israeli art and work.

Eretz Israel Museum is one of the most popular museums in Tel Aviv.

Opening Hours:

Sundays – Wednesdays: 10:00-16:00

Thursdays: 10:00-20:00

Fridays – Saturdays: 10:00-14:00

Address:

2 Haim Levanon St.

Ramat-Aviv

Tel-Aviv

Tel: +972-3-6415244

For more information go to the official website of Eretz Israel Museum

The museum was established in 1978 and describes a period of more then two thousand years in Jewish history.

In the museum you will find drawings, films and other kinds of presentations that describe different issues from different periods.

The exhibitions in the museum include issues like: the Jewish family life, the return to Israel, community, belief, living among other nations and more.

Address:

Beth Hatefutsoth

Tel-Aviv University Campus

P.O.Box: 39359

Ramat Aviv

Tel-Aviv , 61392

Tel: +972-3-6408000

Fax: +972-3-6405727

For more information go to the official website of Beth Hatefutsoth Museum

Jaffa Harbor is considered as one of the oldest harbors in the world. Jaffa Harbor was mentioned first in Bible as a place which Yona ran away through to Tarshish.

Today the harbor is mostly hosting some yachts and children from Tel Aviv are studying to sail.

By the first settlement in Israel, Jaffa Harbor was used as the main gate to Israel, and many mew immigrants entered through this place.

At that time the exporting of citrus was the main economic source in Israel, and Jaffo Harbor was used to be the main harbor for the citrus exporting.

Nowadays the harbor has become a fishing harbor and it is also considered as a historic and a tourist place. In the harbor you can find many attractions like: tours, sailings, restaurants, fish market, galleries, and more…

The square is used to be the main square for many events like: the Independence Day celebrations, demonstrations, open concerts & shows, and more.

The square has a rectangle shape and most of the square is floored.

In the north-east part of the square you can see the monument in memory of Yitzhak Rabin that is placed where Rabin was shot by three firing hand gun and murdered.

In the south part of the square you can find the Holocaust and Revival Monument (“Andartat Hashoa Vehatkuma”), the work of the artist Igal Tomarkin. The monument has a pyramid shape and it is made of iron and glass.

In the north part of the Promenade you can find Tel-Aviv Harbor, and in the south part you can find Jaffa Harbor.

Near the Promenade of Tel-Aviv you can find many of the exclusive hotels of Tel-Aviv, restaurants, well kept beaches, coffee shops, pubs, clubs, and other attractions. This place constitutes a wide open space for a walking trek and for bicycle riders.Near the Promenade you can find many well known sites like: Charles Klor Garden, Haatzmaut Garden (“Gan Haatzmaut”, in English – The Independence Park), Atarim Square (“Kikar Atarim”), London Garden, Herbert Samuel Square, and more…

The literal meaning of “Haatzmaut” from Hebrew is “The independence”. The area of the garden is sprawl under 150 dunams. The garden was designed by very well known international architects, and is considered one of the very old and beautiful gardens in Tel-Aviv.

In this garden you can see many different kinds of plants. In the evening when the sun is falling the garden looks very beautiful

In the center of the garden you can find Hilton Tel-Aviv Hotel. In the garden you can also find a small Muslim graveyard, that was belong in the past for an Arabic rural village.

Over the years the place has become a central gathering place for homosexual people, although today it is not the only place for homosexual people and isn’t the central one at all.

and the near by sea gives it a very romantic atmosphere.

It was the first Jewish Harbor in Israel, while Israel was in a process of building and definition.

The building of the Harbor was a very important step for the Israeli people that had a mission to build a Hebrew country, without the need to do it by violence. Nowadays, the Harbor is used as a central place for many attractions like restaurants, clubs and sport activities.Tel-Aviv Harbor is placed in the north edge of Hayarkon Street and In the Harbor you can find many restaurants, coffee shops, burs, clubs, shops and markets, art galleries and sport activities (like: diving, climbing, yoga and more…).