Eretz Israel Museum

The Eretz Israel Museum (Hebrew מוזיאון ארץ ישראל ) is an archaeological and historical museum in the district of Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.

The museum was opened in 1958 as the Haaretz Museum in the north of Tel Aviv, near the archaeological site of Tell Qasile and now houses a collection of archaeological, anthropological and historical exhibits. Initially, the museum was in a gazebo, the glass collection from the estate of Walter Moses, a 1926 Germany immigrated to Palestine in 1955 and died industrialists. Moses had the estate of his archaeological collection bound to the obligation to build a museum. In the following years the museum was to further pavilions, each dedicated to a specific topic, expanded the Kadman Numismatic Pavilion (1962), the Ethnography and Folklore Pavilion (1963 ), the Ceramics Pavilion ( 1966), the Man and his Work Centre (1982 ), the Nechushtan Pavilion (1983 ), the Alexander Pavilion of Postal History and Philately (1998) and the Rothschild Center (2006 ). Also, a planetarium and the archaeological site of Tell Qasile now belong to the museum.

In Tell Quasile excavated amphorae

Various mail boxes that were used by the Israeli post in the course of time, the Alexander Pavilion of Postal History and Philately