Stories Collection Display

The city of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa is a partnership between people: a dream conceived and realized together by those who build it, live, work, create and visit it. The city belongs to each and every one of us, who weave the story of our lives in it.

Each story is an opportunity to meet other lives up close, to experience a slightly different point of view. A story is a moment in private history, a memory of events that really happened in the city.

Our stories are different from each other. Our experiences, memories and voices are unique to us, but they all relate to and take place in the city. In the museum, the stories connect to each other, correspond, contradict and enrich each other. The collection of stories enables many meeting points between our personal biography and the public and great history.

The collection of the city museum consists of all the events that took place in the city. It is the totality of the actions, experiences and dreams of the city's residents, its lovers, its planners and creators, the people who lived in it in the past and those who live in it today and will live in it in the future.

It is an invitation to wander through the collection, touch, explore and discover stories and voices. The space around you is not a normal, closed and fixed museum collection. It is not an archive, but a common, open space, which is updated every day. Each and every one of you is invited to contribute your own story, participate and continue to create the city together.

Partnership and partners for the establishment of the collection:

Curator of the collection of city stories: Tom Cohen

Co-curator: Achinoam Tamar Wirt

Collection manager: Hadas Yosif On

Content coordinator: Samer Salama

Researchers, researchers and story collectors: Oded Ben Yehuda, Liel Bomberg, Lihia Berger, Ayelet Goldberg Gabai, Ina Gorstein, Hadas Gilad, Roni Wesley, Hamotel Hayon, Prof. Gideon Tykotsky, Michal Lichtenstein, Michal Minsky, Hamotel Sadan, Alex Parfouri, Eden Shoshani, Shalgit Shahar, Rachel Schatz and others.

Special thanks to the partner archives: the Ganzam Institute of the Writers' Association, the Shenkar Center for Design Research in Israel, the "Treasures" project, Yad Ben Zvi and the "Visible City" project, the TARASA project, the Ben Yehuda project, the Writer's Club.

The establishment of the collection was made possible thanks to the partnership and generous contribution of writers, residents, partners and partners who agreed to deposit memories, poems, texts, fragments, photographs and stories in the museum.