Reuben & Edith Hecht Museum
Reuben & Edith Hecht Museum
- Address
- S of Haifa Mount Carmel
- Transport
- Phone
- 04 825 7773
- Hours
- 10:00-16:00 Sun-Mon & Wed-Thu, 10:00-19:00 Tue, 10:00-13:00 Fri, 10:00-14:00 Sat
Lonely Planet review for Reuben & Edith Hecht Museum
The basement of the Eshkol Tower houses the impressive Reuben & Edith Hecht Museum , which houses a fine collection of archaeological artefacts relating to Jewish history before the Diaspora. There is plenty of ancient pottery, weapons and even a pair of 2100-year-old petite-sized sandals. The museum highlight is a 5th-century-BC Greek ship found near Caesarea in 1984. It has been carefully rebuilt and placed in a specially designed annexe of the museum.
An art wing upstairs contains sections on French Impressionist and Jewish art from the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the works are paintings by Monet, Pissaro and Van Gogh.
