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.”
The Age of Empires (Bible Lands Museum)
What turns a kingdom into an empire? We follow Assyria, Babylon and Egypt through the museum’s new war exhibition and the ancient galleries — the Lachish reliefs, the fall of Samaria, Hezekiah against Sennacherib.
The Great Isaiah Scroll & The Written Word (Israel Museum)
The written word has shaped Jewish history for three thousand years — from a scroll copied in the Judean desert to the illuminated Haggadot of Renaissance Italy.This tour follows that thread through the Israel Museum, including the Shrine of the Book and the Great Isaiah Scroll — one of the oldest and most complete biblical manuscripts in existence.
A Magical Night in the Museum (Israel Museum)
Warning: not your usual museum tour. Go renegade. An off-the-beaten-track tour of the Israel Museum — with challenges, shots, and dares. 2.5 hours of museum magic with The Museum Guy. This is the museum after dark, the way the daytime crowds never see it: hidden corners, odd angles, and a few things you’re not really “supposed” to notice. Bring your curiosity and your nerve — you’re in for some surprises.
Ask Nachliel about his availability for Private Tours.
