(28 Aug 2024)
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Haifa, Israel – 28 August 2024
1. Various of Haifa University restorer Roee Shafir laying out pieces of broken bronze era jar
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Roee Shafir, Restorer, Haifa University:
"It’s important that they can touch some of the things. It connects them to the exhibition, it connects them to the feeling to be maybe archeologists or something. It’s important. I like that people touch. Don’t break, but to touch things it’s important."
3. Various of visitors looking at jar in museum entrance
4. Empty space where broken jar used to be
5. Wide of museum pieces
6. Various of Museum director Inbal Rivlin working at her desk
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Inbal Rivlin, Director Hecht Museum:
"His first time at the museum. He didn’t have even the opportunity to visit the museum. He was just taking two steps, it happened, and then they went out. That’s why I wanted to make some closure, to make some, you know, to sweeten the bitter pill."
8. Various exhibits in Hecht museum
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Inbal Rivlin, Director, Hecht Museum:
"This jar was intact, and now we have to make a restoration, but it will be full, whole and round again. And it will be displayed again, but the soul can never recover if we want to take the educational approach."
9. Various of Roee Shafir presenting together large pieces of broken jar
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Roee Shafir, Restorer, Haifa University:
"The child wasn’t supposed to be in the exhibition and touch the vessels, but some of the things they can touch. This, they shouldn’t touch, but they touched and they break it, and it’s okay. I can cure it. It’s okay. It will be next week in the exhibition, and it will be fine."
11. Various exhibits in Hecht museum
STORYLINE:
A rare bronze-era jar has been accidentally smashed by a four-year-old visiting a museum in Israel.
The 3,500-year-old artifact was on display at the entrance of the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa at the time of Friday’s incident.
The child and his family were visiting the museum when the boy touched the jar out of curiosity and knocked it over.
But in a show of understanding that accidents do happen, the museum has invited the boy and his parents back to the museum for a guided visit.
"He didn’t have even the opportunity to visit the museum," said the museum’s director, Inbal Rivlin.
"He was just taking two steps, it happened, and then they went out. That’s why I wanted to make some closure, to make some, you know, to sweeten the bitter pill."
She said the jar was not behind a protective barrier because of the vision of the museum’s founder, Dr Reuven Hecht, who wanted visitors to make archaeological items as accessible as possible.
The museum has asked Roee Shafir, a restorer from the archeological department of Haifa University, to put the jar back together.
"It’s important that they can touch some of the things," Shafir said. "It connects them to the exhibition, it connects them to the feeling to be maybe archeologists or something."
The museum says artifacts are seldom damaged and the jar will be put back on display.
AP Video shot by Alexis Triboulard
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