MUZA’s summer program will offer families a mix of artist-led workshops, guided tours, theater performances, creative activities, riddle games and independent discovery routes, alongside visits to the museum’s permanent displays, the Tel Aviv Biennale of Crafts and Design 2026 and the museum’s orchard.
Most of the activities will take place inside the museum’s air-conditioned galleries and indoor spaces, offering families a way to combine a summer outing with art, design, play and hands-on learning.
The Tel Aviv Biennale of Crafts and Design 2026, titled “Works and Days,” is one of the main anchors of the summer program. The biennale is displayed throughout the museum and features hundreds of works by Israeli artists and designers working in art, design and craft. Visitors can join guided tours, listen to an audio guide or follow an independent family route using an activity kit.
The museum is also showing “Worth the Wait,” a family exhibition that looks at the experience of waiting through contemporary artworks, items from the museum collections and interactive activity stations.
MUZA’s orchard will be open during museum hours, offering a shaded outdoor space and an independent digital game for families using a mobile phone.
Summer activities
(Photo: Tamar Levy Alfasi)
“The summer vacation is an opportunity to introduce children to culture, art and design through direct experience,” says MUZA CEO Gil Omer. “We wanted to create a program that lets families do more than walk through the museum. They can take part, make things, play and explore together.”
Omer says the workshops and meetings with biennale artists are designed to make the biennale accessible to younger visitors as well. “Families can spend several hours at MUZA, and the summer program gives them a range of ways to experience the museum,” he says.
Among the summer activities are:
Hot, hotter, material! A family activity in the permanent displays that explores how heat shapes glass, ceramics and copper, with riddles, tasks and a creative workshop in the education wing.
Artist Liron Golan Wasserman
(Photo: Yael Lichtenstein)
A broom as a work of art. Artist Liron Golan Wasserman, whose work “Brooms” is included in the biennale, will lead a workshop in which participants make a personal broom from natural materials.
Secrets of the faces. A game-based activity in which participants search for clues among faces and figures in the museum’s displays, solve tasks and try to reach a hidden “treasure,” followed by a creative workshop.
Secrets of faces
(Photo: Nof Harari)
Worth the Wait. A guided activity in the exhibition of the same name, followed by a workshop in which participants make a personal cuckoo clock from paper, colors and other materials.
Shapes, symbols and games. Artist Meydad Eliyahu will lead participants in turning familiar shapes and symbols into stencils and creating a multilayered print.
Artist Meydad Eliyahu
(Photo: Yael Lichtenstein)
How do you turn straw into gold? Artist Noa Raz Melamed will introduce straw as a design material and show how simple stalks can be transformed into creative structures.
The activities are intended for children ages 6 and up and last about an hour and a half. Tickets cost 45 shekels, while accompanying adults pay the regular museum admission fee. Advance registration is required, and places are limited.
MUZA, the Eretz Israel Museum, 2 Chaim Levanon Street, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv.