Museum of Psalms מוזיאון התהלים is a street art installation in Old City in Jerusalem. This place has 34 reviews and an average rating of 4.1 of 5. This is a good rating.
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Reviews from visitors:
I have been knowing the Museum of Psalms for years and visitied it frequently, had close contact to Moshe Tsvi Halevi Berger and to Mordechai Balouka as well. I bought books and prints when I visited the museum, and some weeks ago, I purchased two wonderful prints of psalm 103 and psalm 112. Although the pandemic caused a short delay of the shipment, the comunication, the packing, and the transaction was outstanding.
We were just walking by and admired the incredible art. Gad and Rafi were extremely helpful and explained each of the pieces to us. We ended up buying a lithograph. Within 2 hours they had it ready for us to take home. Highly recommend this place.
First of all, this is not a museum, it is a gallery that sells painting.
Second, their paintings are great, as you can see from high ratings of other reviewers. However, if you noticed, every positive review is left by people who just entered the store and admired the painting, while every negative review is by people who purchased a painting and experienced a lot of trouble to get it shipped. Unfortunately, that was our experience as well. They promised to ship it within 10 days, but one month later there was no sign of any progress or update about it. We ended up cancelling the purchase. The only reason I left 2 stars and not 1 star is because we were able to get money back after one month, as opposed to the average 6 months saga people report. It also looks like that people running this business are missing on a great opportunity by having a low quality post-transaction execution. Conclusion, do not buy art work their unless you pick it up on the spot. Check out other reviews by shoppers to see that our experience is more of a norm than an exception.
I loved coming to this place! ❤
The owner is so nice and polite, that it is always a pleasure talking to him. His paintings, litographies, jewelry and so many pieces of art are so exquisite. I bought him a necklace and a canvas; I got a very good price.
The Museum of Psalms now has a store down two levels from the original Museum of Psalms. It had only been open 4 months when we came upon it.
This particular store was our favorite of all the stores in the Old City. Mordecai has carefully selected artists for whom he would like to showcase their art and give the public availability to purchase their work. All the artwork he has chosen is beautiful, reasonably priced, and unlike anything we had seen before. The artists he has chosen are extremely talented. The artists we spoke to were humble about their own work and promoted the work of others in the gallery. We found this to be refreshing and rare. Needless to say we felt quite fortunate to have come upon this shop during our visit to Jerusalem.
The Museum of the Psalms was one of only two stores in the Old City that we felt the peace to wander, browse, and ask questions without any pressure. There was great respect given to the customers. All from our tour group who found the store made note of this difference and spoke of it being their favorite store as well.
We did not have the opportunity to visit the upstairs Museum Of The Psalms that all others are mentioning here but we did peek in the windows and saw the beauty that all have mentioned. Hopefully we can return to Jerusalem one day and have the privilege of getting to see and hear about the displayed work.
We found Mordecai and two of the artist’s he showcases in his store (one of whom was Azriel Gess) to be honorable men. It was a pleasure to have met them as well as have their work in our home and in our friend’s homes in the states.
Many friends purchased artwork from this store to take home and a couple of us ordered artwork (prints & paintings) that would be shipped later to us in the states. The ordered artwork arrived for each of us in perfect condition and was shipped for free.
If you visit the Old City we encourage you to visit both The Museum of The Psalms Store which is in the lower level of the Jewish Quarter and the upstairs Museum of The Psalms.
Address: Chabad 56, Jerusalem,the old city Opening Hours: Monday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PMTuesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PMWednesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PMThursday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PMFriday: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PMSaturday: ClosedSunday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Visit the website
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