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“Three Weeks” Tours with Nachliel “The Museum Guy”

  • Tuesday Jul 29, 2025 (4:15 pm - 6:30 pm)
  • Thursday Jul 31, 2025 (10:15 am - 12:05 pm)
  • Tuesday Aug 05, 2025 (10:15 am - 12:05 pm)

Nachliel Selavan, affectionately known as The Museum Guy, will be guiding tours at the Bible Lands Museum and Israel Museum this summer.

Dive into the stories and gain new insights into the Three Weeks!

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.

The Age of Empires (Bible Lands Museum)

The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah meet with the superpowers of Mesopotamia – and their fate and history was changed forever. These superpowers changed the game. Regional kingdoms and alliances were no match for the rise of the first Empires, and Assyria marks the opening of the Age of Empires in the world. The deportation of the Ten Tribes and the destruction of Samaria, left Judea all alone, and the consequent destruction of Judea and the Temple by Babylon are what gave us the name “Jews”. The geopolitical decisions of the kings of Israel and Judae changed the map, for better or for worse. This tour is a journey to the distant past, and we will meet the Empires of Assyria and Babylon like you never knew them. Dive into the story and gain new insights to the Three Weeks.

Join Nachliel in the museum, where these stories and texts come to life, and learning is exciting and engaging, and gain a fresh appreciation for the summer in the Jewish calendar.

Nachliel updates his list of tours every few days. Keep track of his tours here.

Israel Museum
Derech Ruppin, Jerusalem

Reservations - Nachliel "The Museum Guy"