Tel Aviv Travel Guide - Museums & Galleries

The Eretz Israel Museum: boasts collections which date back 3,000 years. The museum was built around the archaeological site of Tel Kasile and features a dozen different pavilions, each focusing on a particular aspect of Israel's ethnography and material culture. A planetarium and an extensive research library on site are both open to the public.
2 Haim Levanon street, Ramat Aviv. Open: 09:00 to 15:00, Sun to Thu; 10:00 to 14:00, Fri and Sat.

The Bet Bialik Museum: was originally the home of Haim Nachman Bialik, the first great Hebrew pœet. In addition to the manuscripts of his many books, you’ll find exhibits of photographs and paintings by Jewish artists from the time pre-dating Israel’s statehood. The house’s decor provides a glimpse of home life in the cultured and European-style community here in the 1920s.
22 Bialik street. Open: 09:00 to 16:30, Sun to Thu; 11:00 to 14:00 on Sat.

There is also a vast collection of Jewish music here as well as archives of films produced in Jewish communities worldwide.
Klausner street, Ramat Aviv. Open: 10:00 to 16:00, Sun, Mon, Tue and Thu; 10:00 to 18:00 on Wed; and 09:00 to 13:00 on Fri.

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art: houses the city’s premier art collection, which includes permanent exhibitions and also rotating art shows. There are drawings, paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures by Israeli and international artists, from the 16th century to the current time.