Nachliel Selavan, affectionately known as The Museum Guy, is guiding Public & Private tours at the Bible Lands Museum and Israel Museum this summer.
Nachliel’s tours are exciting and unique, and take advantage of the vast collections in the museum to create a memorable learning experience (See review below). The following tours are the top suggestions for this summer, and will be running a few times until the end of August. He tailors every tour to what you need, so be sure to reach out to him.
Nachliel updates his list of tours every few days. Keep track of his tours here.
Nachliel was an excellent tour guide! Kept our 4 children ages 5-11 extremely engaged and taught them quite a bit of history. Upon coming home asked what their favorite part of Israel was they all said their tour with Nachliel! I would highly recommend him.”
PUBLIC TOURS
The Age of Empires (Bible Lands Museum)
Assyria at the height of its power restructured the Ancient Near East, until its downfall by the hands of Babylon. These two Empires changed the world forever, and us along with it. Dive into the story and gain new insights to the Three Weeks.
A Magical Night in the (Israel) Museum
Join this fast paced exciting tour, full or surprises. Not for the feint of heart, nor slow gallery visitor. This is a tour where you have to keep up, or be left behind…with the mummies.. .mwahahaha!
Reading Between The Shards (The Israel Museum)
What connects a wedding blessing to Assyrian conquest? How do shattered glass fragments from Jerusalem’s destruction speak to hope across millennia? This unique tour weaves unexpected threads between celebration and catastrophe, revealing how ancient inscriptions, zodiac beliefs, marriage customs, and imperial artifacts tell one continuous story of Jewish resilience. From Babylonian lions to broken vessels, discover how memory transforms destruction into sacred fragments of meaning. A journey through archaeology, art and tradition that will change how you see both ancient history and contemporary Jewish life.
Ask Nachliel about his availability for Private Tours.
