The first time you visit Israel, it's a given that you're going to go to the Western Wall, Masada, Yad Vashem, the Diaspora Museum, Dizengoff Square, and all of the other mandatory destinations on the tourist itinerary.
But after you've made the trip multiple times and get to make contact with the people who live here, you'll find many off the beaten track places that don't show up in the travel guides.
They include the Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory that we visited in a post a few days ago, the Israel Puppet Center in Holon that we wrote about in 2011, and The Nisco Museum of Mechanical Music in Ein Hod. This museum, about 20 minutes from Haifa, contains the finest collections of antique music boxes and other mechanical musical instruments in the Middle East.
The collection, which was accumulated over 40 years by Nisan Cohen, the founder of the Nisco Museum, contains music boxes, hurdy gurdies, an automatic organ, a reproducing player piano, a collection of 100 year old manivelles, gramophones, hand operated automatic pianos and many other antique musical instruments.
The collection, which was accumulated over 40 years by Nisan Cohen, the founder of the Nisco Museum, contains music boxes, hurdy gurdies, an automatic organ, a reproducing player piano, a collection of 100 year old manivelles, gramophones, hand operated automatic pianos and many other antique musical instruments.
It's open every day from 10 am to 5 pm. Guided tours are conducted every hour. Groups require reservations.
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