The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum is a museum located on the grounds of the University of Haifa, Israel.

History

thumb|Late Bronze Age [[Deir el-Balah sarcophagi|anthropoid coffin from Deir al-Balah (Gaza Strip).]]

thumb|Ma'agan Michael boat

thumb|[[Amedeo Modigliani, 1907, Portrait of Maude Abrantes, oil on canvas, 81 x 54 cm]]

The Hecht Museum was established in 1984 by Reuben Hecht,

Exhibits

Exhibits display the archaeology 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 Temple Mount excavations; Phoenician metalworking, woodworking, stone vessels, glass making, and mosaics. The museum is also home to the Ma'agan Michael Ship, the wreck of a fifth-century BCE merchantman. The museum art collection includes French painting of the Barbizon School, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and the School of Paris, and Jewish art from mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century. The museum owns paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Jacob Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, Max Liebermann.

Activities

The museum has an acoustic auditorium that seats 380 The jar was repaired and was redisplayed in its original position after two weeks.

See also

  • List of Israeli museums
  • Visual arts in Israel

References

  • The Hecht Museum
  • University of Haifa