What is a portrait? Is there absolute definition of portraiture or a binding template of how to represent a person in an artwork?
Guided Tours
Guided Tours
The Ilana Goor Museum invites the public to enjoy a variety of new tours of the museum and its surrounding area. We welcome lovers of sculpture, photography, painting, design, and history for an enriching educational experience with our team of professional guides. Come enjoy a selection of tours offering unique perspectives of the eclectic collection. There are tours geared to all audiences, including a children’s discovery tour for young and old. Rediscover the charms of Jaffa and the treasures of contemporary arts at the Ilana Goor Museum today!
Private Guided Tours
For guided tours in the museum there is an additional charge. The tours are tailored to the visitors requirements in both content and duration. For your guidance a standard tour lasts about an hour. The tours are led by a professional team of guides in the following languages: Hebrew, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. Scheduled tours in additional languages can be given upon request from the Museum Department of Tours and Education.
For further information or bookings:
Phone: 03-683-7676 ext.32
Email: [email protected]
Guided Tours
The image of the woman in art has historically reflected the male gaze, either of the artist or the viewer for which the work was intended. The woman was usually presented as a mother, a seducer, or a muse.
ut of the Box tour is an enjoyable and cultural experience for all ages, inside an ancient building from the 18th century
Tours & Art Workshops for Kids and Adults
This tour is led by a tour guide and a talking puppet of Ilana Goor herself. Together we’ll tour the museum and learn about the different portraits that decorate the walls of this 18th-century building.
The tour will focus on the differences between the cultures, nations and faiths that coexist here in the museum’s collection. In the workshop that follows the tour we will create shoes modeled on our own feet in order to raise the question: what’s the difference between you and I?
In this tour we’ll explore the photographic works in the museum’s collection. In the sculpture garden, we’ll discuss the various shooting techniques available to photographers nowadays.
The tour will focus on the 18th-century architecture of the museum and the various design pieces housed there.