(11 Sep 2024)
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Haifa, Israel – 11 September 2024
1. Various of museum workers putting fixed bronze-era jar on display
2. Close up fixed jar
3. Close up of sign, reading (Hebrew) “Storage Jar, Late Bronze Age 1500 – 1130 B.C. The jar was temporarily taken out for treatment, restoration and re-gluing – The conservation laboratory of the Department of Archaeology"
4. Woman putting fixed jar on display
5. Set up shot of Inbal Rivlin, director of museum
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Inbal Rivlin, Director of Hecht Museum:
“I was speaking to myself ‘why this is so special to react to in such a compassionate and gracious method and way to the family? Why this is so special?’ I think that in the situation here in Israel, there is a very difficult time for us. The people are very stressed. And to see such an act that is different, that you take the incident, and you treat it. You don’t ignore it, you don’t shout. You don’t want to give fines, not to the family and not to the kid. Well, he’s just a kid. So I think that somehow it touches the heart of the people in Israel and around the world."
7. Mid of jars at museum
8. People visiting museum
9. Close up of boat
10. Amir Weilinski, senior guide at museum
11. Close up of animal skelton
12. Man visiting museum
13. Amir Weilinski in museum
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Amir Weilinski, Senior guide, Hecht Museum:
"We think that you have to teach the audience and of course, the younger audience, our young visitors how to visit the museum, how to behave in a museum. This is an educational experience. People often ask me, what’s the youngest age you would recommend to the people coming to the museum? And I say, ‘You know, there’s no minimum age’."
15. Mid of sign next to jar, reading (Hebrew/English) “Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum"
16. Various of fixed jar on display
17. Close up of sign, reading (English/Hebrew) “Please do not touch”
18. Wide shot of mosaic on display at museum
STORYLINE:
A rare bronze-era jar accidentally smashed by a four-year-old visiting a museum in Israel was back on display on Wednesday after restoration experts were able to carefully piece the jar back together.
Last month, a family from northern Israel was visiting the Hecht Museum in Haifa when their youngest son tipped over the jar, which smashed into pieces.
Alex Geller, the boy’s father, said his son — the youngest of three — is exceptionally curious, and that the moment he heard the crash, “please let that not be my child” was the first thought that raced through his head.
The jar has been on display at the museum for 35 years.
It was one of the only containers of its size and from that period still complete when it was discovered.
The Bronze Age jar is one of many artifacts exhibited out in the open, part of the Hecht Museum’s vision of letting visitors explore history without glass barriers, said Inbal Rivlin, the director of the museum, which is associated with Haifa University in northern Israel.
It was likely used to hold wine or oil, and dates back to between 2200 and 1500 B.C.
Rivlin and the museum decided to turn the moment, which captured international attention, into a teaching moment, inviting the Geller family back for a special visit and hands-on activity to illustrate the restoration process.
Rivlin added that the incident provided a welcome distraction from the ongoing war in Gaza.
“Well, he’s just a kid. So I think that somehow it touches the heart of the people in Israel and around the world,“ she said.
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