The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History — Attraction in Tel-Aviv

👍 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...

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...

I wish I could review this new and needed museum enthusiastically, but I believe there were some important things lacking in the design, layout and displays. First, I felt the museum was too crowded to enjoy a leisure stroll to give the right amount of attention to each display. Second, I was amazed that many of the displays were within hand's reach of museum attendees, particularly children. No amount of docents or warning signs or parental no-nos are gonna keep a kid from touching. Bad for the displays. Some displays were mushed all together in cases, VERY difficult to separate them out. I visited the museum of natural history with a natural history "expert" who noticed some small errors in identification, etc. We both felt the museum lacked a special "atmosphere," that you can't describe, but you know it when you feel it (or miss that feeling). Lastly, the welcome desk/waiting area was pleasant, but guards were very strict about where we could sit while waiting for the...