Eretz Israel Museum at Lovers of Art

The museum will be open to the general public on the following days:

Wednesday, 10:00–16:00

Thursday, 10:00–20:00

Friday, 10:00–14:00

Admission is free.

• Tours and gallery talks in the exhibitions.
• Free admission, with advance registration on the Museum of the Land of Israel website.
• Places are limited.

Wednesday

10:15

Tour of the Pavilion of Jewish Culture and Folklore with Maya Mosk, the pavilion’s curator

The tour will introduce sacred and secular objects from the museum’s collection that tell the story of Jewish communities in Israel and around the world. We will look at local Judaica, objects related to the Jewish holidays and the cycle of life, and contemporary artworks that give them new meaning.

12:00

Gallery talk on the exhibition Day of Judgment, 2018–2022, with artist Neta Harari-Navon and the exhibition’s curator, Yelena Algart-Sharon

An examination of Neta Harari-Navon’s monumental work, which dismantles the familiar order and challenges the possibility of a single story and ultimate judgment. In the talk, we will examine how layers of painting, exposure, and concealment create tension between memory and loss, presence and absence, and disintegration and reconstruction. We will also discuss the dialogue that unfolds between the works and the archaeological finds displayed in the Nahushtan Pavilion.

Thursday

11:00

Tour of the Museum’s Orchard with Yelena Algart-Sharon, the Museum of the Land of Israel’s curator of archaeology

The Museum’s Orchard, opened in 2024, was established on the western grounds of the museum in order to deepen the physical and spiritual connection between the museum, the city, and the general public. The orchard is an expansive Mediterranean garden featuring an ecological pond, reconstructed olive and flour mills, a planetarium, and a selection of archaeological objects from the museum’s collections, dispersed along its paths. The permanent opening of the orchard to the public, free of charge, is part of the process of opening the museum’s doors and connecting it to the fabric of urban life as a social and cultural institution.

16:00

The Story of a Museum: An architecture tour led by Neta Nissim, registrar of the Museum of the Land of Israel

The Museum of the Land of Israel is much more than a museum—it is an archaeological site, a cultural space, and an ongoing historical story. In this special tour, we will reveal the path the museum has taken since its establishment to the present day: we will discover how the finds uncovered in excavations at Tel Qasile influenced the museum’s structure, learn about the principles that guided its architects Werner Joseph Wittkower and Arieh Baumann, and more.

16:00

A combined tour of works from the Tel Aviv 2026 Art and Design Biennale in the Glass Pavilion and the Alexander Pavilion of Postal History and Philately, with the pavilions’ curators Henrietta Eliezer-Bruner and Rachel Bonfil

The tour will present works by artists Guy Shagi, Shahar Kedem, and Lilach Shatiat.

Friday

11:00

Gallery talk on the exhibition חי حاي Hai by graduates of the Tel-Hai Institute of Arts, with the exhibition’s curators Michal Shapira and Michal Karsny (mnm)

The exhibition חי حاي Hai is presented as part of the academic incubators of the Tel Aviv 2026 Art and Design Biennale. It presents works by graduates created against the backdrop of the upheaval in northern Israel. In the talk, we will examine how artistic creation becomes, for the students, a means of coping, perseverance, and survival, in the spirit of the concept underlying Hesiod’s poem Works and Days.

Image: From Neta Harari-Navon’s work Day of Judgment, 2018–2022. Photograph: Tal Isaac.