Hecht Museum

The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum is an archaeological museum at the University of Haifa, Israel.

The Hecht Museum in 1984, donated by Reuben Hecht, an Israeli entrepreneur and co-founder of the University of Haifa. In the archaeological museum collections of Reuben Hecht be stored to the specially interested in finds from the Canaanite period until the end of the Byzantine Empire. The collections show predominantly material culture of the historical geographical region of Israel at the time of the ancient East. Hecht was of the opinion that on the archeology relationships between the Jewish people and Eretz Israel can be produced.

The collection objects show the history of Israel in chronological order. Among others, be issued Coins, weights, Semitic seals, jewelery, artifacts from excavations at the Temple Mount, Phoenician metalworking, woodworking, stone vessels, glass art and mosaics. The museum has also preserved the remains of a trading ship from the 5th century BC, which was discovered during Ma'agan Micha'el.

The art museum's collection includes paintings of the Barbizon School, Impressionism, Post- Impressionism, as well as Jewish art from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, the museum displays paintings by Jean -Baptiste- Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, and Max Liebermann.

Pictures

Egyptian cosmetic

Stele from Tell Beit Mirsim

Collection of paintings in the Hecht Museum