Heritage
Haifa Maritime
Museum
We don’t know
about you, but as we get older, we love and
appreciate history much more. We think that history lessons are wasted
on us at
school age. But now – bring it on!
We paid a visit
to the National
Maritime Museum in Haifa. The
museum has three floors – one focuses on
archeological finds and ancient seafaring; a second is divided with a
section
devoted to piracy and another to Israel’s fleet in more recent times.
Yet
another floor is mainly activities for kids.
Our favorite
part was the ancient seafaring floor, which had
all kinds of really cool shipping artifacts and instruments, including
a bronze
ram of a 2nd-century BCE warship discovered near Atlit, plus some
beautiful
boat models.
The piracy
section was also quite interesting as we
discovered that pirates actually did fit the stereotype of how they are
portrayed in Hollywood. So Johnny Depp did a pretty good job – plus
after all
he’s, well, you know, Johnny Depp. ?