"""It is not the homes, streets and buildings that make up a city but the spirit of its people: their language, investment in productivity and creativity, equality, and pursuit of an honorable, independent life."" Meir Dizengoff's famous words still ring true today: the history of a city is the history of its people, a collaboration among everyone. This is also how it evolves, becoming part of our life story – and this is also how we established the story collection. Tel Aviv-Yafo is a collaborative endeavor, a dream conceived and brought to life by those who build, inhabit, innovate, and visit the city. The city is a part of everyone whose life is intertwined with it. Every story provides an opportunity to encounter different lives and experience various viewpoints. A story represents a moment in personal history, a recollection of events that occurred in the city. Our stories are unique, shaped by our experiences, memories, and voices, yet interconnected with the city. They converge, converse, contradict, and enrich each other within the museum. The story collection provides numerous connections between our personal experiences and public history. The Tel Aviv-Yafo City Museum collection consists of a compilation of events in the city. It includes the actions, experiences, and dreams of the city's residents, admirers, planners, and creators. It encompasses the past and present inhabitants of the city, as well as those who may make it their home in the future. This is an invitation to wander through the collection, touch, explore, and reveal stories and voices. The museum collection is unusual, open, and fluid. It is not an archive but a dynamic, shared, common space.
Collection Designers:
Curator City Story Collection: Tom Cohen
Co-curator City Story Collection: Achinoam Tamar Virt
Collection Manager: Hadas Yossif-on
Content Coordinator: Samer Salama
Research and Story Collectors:
Shachar Abiry, Eran Eizenhamer, Yael Bedarshi, Liel Bomberg, Oded Ben Yehuda, Lihi Berger, Ayelet Goldberg Gabay, Inna Gorstein, Hadas Gilad, Guy Granit, Guy Dubious, Shula Widrich, Hila Waldman, Roni Vesely, Hamutal Hayun, Prof. Giddon Ticotsky, Michal Lichtenstein, Michal Minsky, Hasan Masri, Hamutal Sadan, Guy Pitchon, Alex Farfuri, Eden Shoshani, Shalgit Shahar, Rachel Shatz
Special Thanks to the Collaborating Archives
Gnazim Archive of the Hebrew Writers Association, Shenkar Design Research Center, Ozarot Organization, Israel Album – Yad Ben Zvi, TARASA, 110 Childhood Memories in Celebration of the City's 110th anniversary, ed. Tami Shem Tov, The Ben-Yehuda Project, Ktav Club.
The collection is abundant thanks to everyone who agreed to share their memories, pictures and stories.
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