Ticho House ( he, בית טיכו, ''Beit Tikho'') is a historical home in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, now a

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administered as part of the

Israel Museum The Israel Museum ( he, מוזיאון ישראל, ''Muze'on Yisrael'') is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopa ...

. It was one of the first homes built outside the Old City walls in the 19th century.

History

Ticho House was built in the early 1860s outside the

Old City Old City often refers to old town, the historic or original core of a city or town. Old City may refer to several places: Historical cities or regions of cities ''(by country)'' *Old City (Baku), Azerbaijan * Old City (Dhaka), Bangladesh, also ca ...

walls. It was typical of the urban Ottoman architecture of the time, with vaulted ceilings, thick walls and a large central hall flanked by side rooms. It was surrounded by a spacious garden. Over the years, rooms were added and the house was extended at the front and back. It was originally known as the Aga Rashid villa. Among its first occupants was the family of the antiquities dealer

Moses Wilhelm Shapira Moses Wilhelm Shapira ( he, מוזס וילהלם שפירא; 1830 – March 9, 1884) was a Jerusalem antiquities dealer and purveyor of allegedly forged Semitic artifacts – the most high profile of which was the Shapira Scroll. The shame bro ...

, whose daughter Myriam Harry described growing up there in her memoir, "La petite fine de Jerusalem." The family lived there between 1873 and 1883. Ticho House039

In 1924, Dr. Abraham Albert Ticho, an ophthalmologist, and his wife,

Anna Ticho Anna Ticho (; 27 October 1894 – 1 March 1980) was an Israeli artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills. Beit Ticho, the house in Jerusalem that she shared with her husband is now a branch of the Israel Museum and a café. ...

, an artist, bought the house. Dr. Ticho was stabbed and seriously wounded during the

1929 Palestine riots The 1929 Palestine riots, Buraq Uprising ( ar, ثورة البراق, ) or the Events of 1929 ( he, מאורעות תרפ"ט, , ''lit.'' Events of 5689 Anno Mundi), was a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 in which a longst ...

.Thousands of Jews, Christians and Arabs prayed for his recovery. When he was able to return to work, he opened a new clinic on the first floor of Beit Ticho and continued to take patients there until his retirement in 1950.

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was widespread in Jerusalem at the time, and he often treated hundreds of patients per day. The Tichos hosted local and British government officials in their home, as well as artists, writers, academics and intellectuals. Anna Ticho bequeathed the house and its contents, including her husband's Judaica collections and library, to the

Cafe/restaurant

Ticho House operates a kosher dairy restaurant featuring live jazz and classical music performances.Ticho House gallery and restaurant
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