Historical and archaeological Museum Eretz Israel (land of Israel) is located in Ramat Aviv. In his exhibition pavilions focused exhibits on the millennia the land of Israel.

The Museum was founded in 1953, just five years after the formation of the state of Israel. Its pavilions set in gardens, each dedicated to a separate topic: ceramics, coins, brassware, glass. In a special pavilion displays ancient methods of weaving, baking, jewelry and pottery crafts. But the main thing here – a huge number of archaeological artifacts, among which are unique.

The emergence of the Museum is connected with the name of elder Israeli archaeologists Benjamin Mazar, who started the hidden in the Holy land antiquities in 1932. He is the first newly created Jewish state was allowed in 1948 to start digging in tel-Kasil on the banks of the Yarkon river. Back in 1815 socialite and traveler lady Hester Lucy Stanhope claimed that this place was an ancient settlement. Lady was not mistaken. Benjamin Mazar discovered the ruins of the Philistine city of the XII century BC. Now in the pit at the Museum you can see artifacts twelve different cultural layers, up to the Islamic era.

Here is revealed the remains of three walls of ancient temples built one on top of another. Walls of sun-dried bricks, covered with light plaster inside the walls are lined with low benches. The nearby apartment building built by the same standard, with an area of approximately 100 square meters, each with two rooms and a patio.

The exhibits provide an opportunity to witness firsthand one of the first technological revolutions in human history, marked by the development of copper. The Chalcolithic (period of transition from the stone age to the copper) refers to the IV Millennium BC. This is the age of primitive smelting furnaces, presented in the Museum. To XIII-XIV centuries BC are better cupola furnaces. In those days the Egyptians smelted copper on the territory of Israel, they got a lot of copper statues and cartouches.

Of particular interest is the copper snake with a gilded head – like mentioned in the old Testament, in the Book of Numbers. When the Jews of the Exodus began to suffer from poisonous snakes, Moses as directed by God raised up the serpent of brass, when looking at who was bitten alive. Over time, the sons of Israel began to worship this idol, gave it the name Nehushtan, and then king Hezekiah "destroyed the brass serpent" (car 18:4). The pavilion dedicated to the copper age, and is called "Nehushtan".

The Museum has one of Israel's largest numismatic collections: coins presented here, starting from the VI century BC. In the pavilion dedicated to crafts, displays of tools from all periods: flint knives, mills, loom, tools for working wood. With wares of the late bronze age begins the collection of the glass pavilion. Funny Roman glass perfume bottles, very similar to modern.