Museum of Natural History — Attraction in Jerusalem

The summer daycare activities are wonderful - pleasant and educational, for both of my boys (6 and 8 year olds). The activities of the "camp" are mostly outdoors, and that helps tire them out even further, which is pretty important to summertime parents!

The boys proudly presented the contents of the museum itself, which is housed in a huge villa of a style that was popular around the start of the 1900's. The displays are reminiscent of a bygone era, while showing touches of updates near the end of the 1980's. Those electronic updates vary in how well they work.

The older parts of the collection are amazing to modern eyes, though. There are many species on display, as expertly taxidermied specimens. My wife had a bit of a start when she finally noticed the huge warthog staring at her from the side of the doorway to the room she had just entered.

The boys really got a kick out of the two-headed calf on display, and of the dinosaur exhibit.

Overall, it was great to visit, but I would not have made it a destination trip. However, it's location is so close to the restaurants and shops on Emek Refaim (literally the next street over) that you can use it as a waypoint, and the parking lot as the start for the next part of a day's trip, or the wind-down to an...

On the one hand, the place is really neglected, the windows of the exhibits are broken and they fixed them with adhesive paper, the floor and the walls have seen better days, the exhibits are dusty and some of the explanations have fallen off, and the place is very, very old-fashioned, don't expect to get something similar to the Nature Museum in Tel Aviv, on the other hand, there are things that are very Interesting to see and the children did enjoy it, the most beautiful thing is actually the garden outside, there is a nursery, a sustainability garden, a kitchen and a few games for children and sculptures, I think you can enter the garden even without entering and paying at the museum, you should check it out. The building and the courtyard are beautiful and pleasant, but the museum is in a deplorable condition. The exhibits are mostly tattered and crumbling stuffed animals, and there are also some dioramas and other exhibits that are brought in sloppily and without thought. The staff are polite but not very helpful....

I like this place. its very quite and cute. There are museum,lake,garden and shop. 1 by 1

The museum: very cool but its more for kids lots of things to learn.

The lake: is little but what interesting in it? Its hydroponic garden (that mean: the fish is eating food "doing" their job and this water goes to the garden), in the lake as i said there are koi fish and frogs.

The garden:the garden is the best place of this place! Its very beautiful, there are lots of places to sit and read a book!

The shop: i didn't bought here lots of things, but i know that there a mailbox that if you want to buy but nobody there you can put the money there and take the...