The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum is a museum located on the grounds of the University of Haifa, Israel.
The Hecht Museum was founded in 1984 by Reuben Hecht, director of Dagon Silos and a founding member of the board of governors of the University of Haifa.
For sixty years, Hecht has been collecting archaeological artifacts that represent the material culture of the Land of Israel in ancient times.
He was particularly interested in finds from the Canaanite period to the end of the Byzantine period.
Hecht believed that archeology was an important expression of Zionism and these ancient artifacts were evidence of the link between the Jewish people and Eretz Israel.
The exhibits show the archeology and history of the Land of Israel in chronological sequence, from the Chalcolithic period to the Byzantine period.
Exhibits include coins, weights, Semitic seals, jewelry, artifacts from the excavations of the Temple Mount; Phoenician metalworking, woodworking, stone vases, glassworking and mosaics.
The museum also houses the Ma'agan Michael ship, the wreck of a 5th century BC merchant ship.
The museum's art collection includes French painting from the Barbizon school, impressionism, post-impressionism and the Paris school, and Jewish art from the mid 19th to early 20th centuries.
The museum has paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Jacob Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, Max Liebermann.
Hecht Museum
Address: Abba Khoushy Ave 199
Phone: +972 4 824 9927
Site:
https://mushecht.haifa.ac.il/index.php?lang=heLocation inserted by
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