Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Israel's Declaration of Independence was signed inside what was then this art museum.

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On the fourteenth of May, 1948, two hundred and fifty delegates gathered quietly in an art museum on Rothschild Boulevard and signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence. The building had been a private house. It belonged to Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, who gave it away as a museum in memory of his wife Zina after her death in 1930. The museum opened there in 1932. It kept growing. By the early sixties the collections of modern art had outgrown the rooms, and construction on a new home began in 1966. Money ran out and work stopped for two years. The museum finally moved to Shaul Hamelech Boulevard in 1971. The old house on Rothschild did not become a museum annex or an office. It became Independence Hall, named for the one afternoon that happened in it.

This is the first of 3 parts. The rest runs about 3 minutes and is read to you as you drive past. Hear the whole piece.

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On 14 May 1948, 250 delegates quietly gathered at the museum for the historic signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. In 1971, the building became Independence Hall when the museum relocated to 27 Shaul Hamelech Boulevard.

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