The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History
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👍 Great museum! Very kid 🧒and family 👪 friendly. Located in the territory of the Tel Aviv University. To visit it, the tickets need to be booked in advance. The museum has permanent and temporary exhibitions. On each floor there's a different thematic. Natural history museum presents insects, wild life🦍, anthropology 💀, ecology♻️ and some modern art 🎨 subjects. Museum has outside terrace with a great view on Tel Aviv. It's also a lunch area. There's also a conference room. And opportunities to book private, group tours. Pre-covid, your could touch many showpieces, which is important for kids, and education. Pre-covid there was also a conference room with kid's activities like puzzles, cubes, drawings etc. Outside the building there's a garden, and some exhibition photos, or Sometimes even an ice cream cart. Plus as a bonus museum has very beautiful and interesting internal shop with tons of original toys, posters, souvenirs etc. Museum building is handicapped friendly and has underground 🚇 parking 🅿. The whole place is very clean, very polite and helpful staff. The missing place is a cafe or a restaurant 🍴 next to it. No breastfeeding room though. But the staff opened a conference room for us 😊 to give us privacy 🔏. Very thankful for that 🙏. I wish high standard museum like this would be in every big city of Israel. And I hope this museum would become bigger.
Silva OjovanSilva Ojovan
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It was an unexpectedly pleasant surprise. Going to this museum I did not expect such well organized and beautifully made areas and exhibits. Glazed different habitats of flora, which can be recognized in details on the electronic tablet next to it. Small video clips with different subtitles in a mini-cinema on a topic corresponding to the visited zone. Large interactive map-table showing changes in the state of nature of the country(for example, the chronology of excess fishing, or animal migration). Or a hall with an anthill, in which a real colony lives. And next to which there is a stand with an artificial one, where various details of the existence of an anthill in nature are marked and described. There are other interesting "live aquariums" in this room too. There are several stands and examples showing the movements of an animal or bird(you can move the handle and see the movement of a muscle, for example), and a large screen that shows chronology of the spreading of humanity around the World. A very interesting and good museum, tickets to which are not so expensive. We also successfully got to the exhibition: Large photos of insects taken in ultra quality and close-up. Failed to take a picture, the light shone unsuccessfully.
Alexandr OrlovAlexandr Orlov
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Very nice! Wonderful reception and staff in general are very friendly and helpful. If you're like us and like to read the explanation for the things you see in a Museum, you'd better spare about 3 hours to really look and interact with everything you'll find there. Attention that there are four floors of exhibition, and all of them are worth the visit. Tickets must be bought on the Museum website, and you can comfortably do it through your phone when you arrive there, seeing it's not a crowded place, so you don't need to buy it in advance. They have discounted prices for families. The Museum is interesting for people of all ages. The Souvenir store is a bit pricey, but you can find nice things there! We've bought "The Natural History Book - the ultimate visual guide to everything on Earth", which is a really awesome 664 real pictures totally illustrated + text book! Really recommend the visit!
Paula BerlowitzPaula Berlowitz
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This nature museum has a variety of animals, the biggest of them is a brown syrian bear, which many years ago walked freely in the area. Most of these animals like birds or nocturnal animals you can't easily see in nature nor in the zoo, so it is important and interesting. I want to emphasize that all the animals here were donated after they found their natural end and that all the employees care a lot about animals and the environment, and they gladly explain (only if you ask them) what we can do to help animals in our surroundings. The museum explains the effects of plastic pollution and climate changes, it has a show room with living insects, and some nice interactive displays for the kids. It is a bit small but surely worth a visit, I recommend you plan 2.5 hours more or less for this place.
Amir FeferAmir Fefer
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An extraordinary experience. Supports 3 languages: Hebrew, English and Arabic. The exhibits are stunning, the staff are very helpful and can tell you a lot about the things shown on each floor. There are vending machines and a place to have a snack. A gift shop and a deck to enjoy the view. Adjacent to the botanical and zoological TA-UNI gardens (you can book a group tour). There are 4 accessible floors there, so consider visiting all of them. When you finish your tour on the 4th floor and an elevator down to the 0 level, have a look at the exhibit on your left (it's left of the gift shop and down some stairs, because there are live critters shown there, with interesting info on each one. Very much recommend.
maria nosarevmaria nosarev
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A good natural history museum with many interactive areas, suitable for kids and adults. We started from the 3rd floor and it took about 2.5 hours to see everything. The only inconvenience is that the museum is pretty crowded - there was a 10 minutes queue already at 11AM on Saturday. And there is no ticket office there - buy tickets in advance at their site or you will have to do it with your mobile at the entrance. On the other hand it was still possible to find a free parking space nearby. Do recommend visiting if you like the nature. And do not miss the live insects exhibition on the ground floor!
Oleg ZelikmanOleg Zelikman
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Klausner St 12, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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+972 73-380-2000
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smnh.tau.ac.il
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The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies at Tel Aviv University, is a natural history museum in Israel, including both education and a research center.
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