Design Museum Holon – Visitors Guide

Design Museum Holon hosts a variety of design exhibitions, providing an enjoyable experience for individuals and families.

Map

Design Museum Holon is located at Golda Meir 6, Holon. You can leave your car at the nearby free Mediatheque parking lot. The easiest way to reach the museum is by using one of the following links.

Directions for drivers: Link to Waze and Link to Google Maps
Directions for public transport: Link to Moovit

Interactive map of the area:

Map of the museum:

It is easy to spot this museum due to its unique design – the big red ribbons.

Opening Hours

Sunday: Closed
Monday: 10:00 – 16:00
Tuesday: 10:00 – 20:00
Wednesday, Thursday: 10:00 – 18:00
Friday: 10:00 – 14:00
Saturday: 10:00 – 18:00

Entrance Fee

Adult: 45 NIS
Child (5-9): 25 NIS
Teenager (10-18): 35 NIS
Student, soldier: 30 NIS
Senior citizen: 22.5 NIS
Child under 5: free

Note: The entrance fee and opening hours were updated in September 2024. In any case, recheck the official site before your visit.

Coupons

You can purchase coupons through several places:

• HTZone offers adult tickets starting from 25 NIS, child tickets starting from 9 NIS, and teenager tickets starting from 19 NIS.
• Teachers association – 31 NIS per adult.
• Cal offers adult tickets for 30 NIS, child tickets for 20 NIS, and teenager tickets for 30 NIS.

Color – Exhibition

The Design Museum Holon occasionally changes its exhibitions. In August, I noticed that they changed to the color exhibition. Since it is a delightful family experience with air conditioning (making it suitable for a summer visit), we decided to try it out.

Color plays an important role in facilitating our understanding of reality and our capacity to categorize its various elements – ranging from biological indicators such as skin, hair, or eye color to national symbols such as a flag, passport or ID card and to commercial brands or sports groups. Color can transform us into members of a given group. At the same time, it can also make us stand out among others.

“Color” at Design Museum Holon explores how we understand, perceive, and interpret color and colorfulness, which are usually specific to a particular time, place, tradition, and culture. The exhibition examines the ways in which colors envelop objects, are integrated into them, or become objects in their own right. In doing so, it probes the process through which colors come to be identified with a group, a nation, or even an abstract idea or value.

Some 35 Israeli designers working in a range of disciplines – product design, textile design, visual communications, fashion design, digital design, illustration, and more – were invited to create new works, especially for this exhibition. The Dr. Shulamit Katzman Gallery (Lower Gallery) features projects concerned with color as matter, exploring how it comes into being by means of both contemporary and traditional technologies. In the Upper Gallery, designers create unique and original color environments, which demonstrate how surroundings and experience are shaped by color.

In the Peripheral Gallery, the displays explore color trends and the historical and cultural reasons for choosing a certain color to represent a particular idea. The museum’s Design Laboratory serves as an arena for exploring the relations between color and the worlds of fauna and flora, featuring an illustration project in which visitors are welcome to take up colors and join in the creative process.

Yuval Saar and Liora Rosin

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At The Exhibition

I purchased discounted tickets (see coupons above), and we started our visit.

We first saw this movie and the gallery behind it (#1 on the map) – “Between Color and Matter.” Here are several photos:

Then we went to the peripheral corridor (#3 on the map) and saw “Between Color and Culture.”

In the peripheral corridor, we learned many interesting things. For example, do you know what stands behind the chosen colors by the Israeli soccer teams?

The color red has been associated with Hapoel Tel Aviv since its foundation in 1926. The team’s symbol, designed by Jan Lewitt, features a figure throwing an iron ball alongside the Soviet hammer and sickle, which represent the working class. The blood shed as part of the struggle for workers’ rights was symbolized by the color red as a representation of self-sacrifice, courage, rebellion, and freedom.

By contrast, the yellow color of Maccabi Tel Aviv uniforms came to be associated with the team only in 1942, when it was chosen as a means of identification with the European Jews persecuted by the Nazis and forced to wear the Yellow Star. Until then, the team’s uniform was the color of the flag – blue and white. The person who initiated this gesture was team player Yosef Merimovich. Since then, all teams affiliated with Maccabi Tel Aviv have worn a yellow uniform.

For forty years, the Maccabi Haifa team members wore white uniforms. In the 1950s, Avigdor Hershkowitz, a member of the team’s club, met an American-Jewish businessman who agreed to donate new uniforms to the team. The team’s management had no specifications for the chosen color as long as it was not red – the color of the rival team Hapoel Haifa. Immediately after the color green was selected, the team won a series of consecutive games, supporting the belief that green was its lucky color.

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Another interesting question is: “Why does black represent mourning?”

Mourning clothes were already customary in ancient Rome, yet were not always black. The Romans wore togas woven of dark wool. In medieval Europe, white or black crepe fabric was a sign of mourning among the upper classes. In fact, black clothes were worn mainly by the aristocracy due to the high costs of producing and purchasing the materials used to create a black dye, such as squid ink or a special type of coal. When Prince Albert died in 1861, and Queen Victoria wore black mourning clothes, many bereaved women in Britain imitated her dress.

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Why is a black cat considered a bad omen?

A black cat crossing one’s path has long been superstitiously viewed as an omen of bad luck or impending death. In medieval Europe, black cats were often associated with female witches and black magic. It was believed that witches practiced at night, and black cats were associated with nocturnal activities. Additionally, black cats are less prevalent in nature than cats with other types of fur. It is possible that the relative rarity of this color contributed to its association with mysticism and superstition.

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What are the colors of the Israeli flag?

In contrast to the prevalent conception that the colors of the national flag are blue and white, the national colors of Israel, as defined by the Flag Law, are celestial blue and white. The association of this color combination with the people of Israel first appears in Numbers 16, 37-40: “Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue” (the original Hebrew word tchelet, specifies the celestial shade).

The first modern figure to define blue and white as the national colors of the Jewish people was the Austrian-Jewish poet Ludwig August Ritter von Frankl-Hochwart (Abraham Elazar). Thirty years before the first Zionist Congress, he published a poem titled “The Colors of Judah.” In reality, the intensity and precise shade of blue changes from flag to flag. Today, “blue and white” is a color combination that not only represents national values but also serves as an economic, marketing, and judicial term referring to products produced in part or in full in the state of Israel.

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Our next stop was the upper gallery (#2 on the map), where we saw “Between Color and Colorfulness.” Here are several photos from there:

Then we went downstairs to design lab (#5 on the map) – “Between Color and Nature.” We learned a little about color in nature, and the kids had a chance to color the windows. Here are several photos.

How much time does a visit to the museum take?

It is a small museum, and we spent about 90 minutes there. Depending on the selected activity, a typical visit will probably be 1 – 2 hours.

Summary

Design Museum Holon is a lovely museum. We learned new things and enjoyed the visit. I recommend keeping an eye on this museum, and when there is an exhibition on a topic that interests you, make sure to visit. Also, since the museum is small, I suggest combining it with other nearby attractions. You can find them on the interactive map above.

Have you been to the Design Museum Holon? If so, please share your experience in the comments below.

That’s all for today, and I’ll see you in future travels!

Stay Tuned!

Additional Resources

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• Trip Planner with Attractions and Itineraries is the page that will help you create your perfect travel route.
• What is the Best Time to visit Israel? To answer this question, we will consider the weather, prices, holidays, festivals, and more.
• Information and Tips for Tourists to Israel will answer the most common questions tourists have about Israel (including safety, passports, weather, currency, tipping, electricity, and much more).
• Israel National Parks and Nature Reserves include a complete list, top ten, map, tickets (Israel Pass, Matmon, combo), and campsites.
• If you are looking for things to do, here are the pages for Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Sea Of Galilee, Akko (Acre), Eilat, Nazareth, Safed (Tzfat), and Makhtesh Ramon.