The Biblical Museum of Natural History

The Biblical Museum of Natural History, currently placed inside the northern business sector of Beit Shemesh, Israel, was founded in 2014 via Natan Slifkin, affectionately called the "Zoo Rabbi". The established order describe itself as "part natural records museum, component zoo" and is meant to "decorate the appreciation and expertise of biblical scripture and Jewish lifestyle through the herbal international". Visitors are able to advantage insight into the animals that lived in Israel during biblical instances even though they no longer exist there now, inclusive of bears and crocodiles.

Visitors to the museum are currently directed by special excursion by way of appointment handiest. Features encompass stay animal, taxidermy and skeleton exhibits, as well as audio/visual displays. In 2017 the Museum held a "Feast of Exotic Curiosities", at which ingredients including locusts, guineafowl, and water buffalo, which are described as kosher inside the Bible however not often served, have been organized through chef Moshe Basson of The Eucalyptus, a restaurateur recognised for his modern-day preparations of biblical meals.