The Treasure of the State Three of the largest museums in Israel operate in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and attract to them, every year, upward from one million, one hundred thousand visitors. In addition to them, there are in the city many other museums, the treasures of which form a wide sweep of art and culture products, starting in archeological finds and including prose and poetry. The Eretz Israel Museum (The Land of Israel Museum), which was founded in 1953, is actually a large collection of museums, situated mainly in Ramat Aviv. This is "the town of the museums" including the following branches: the glass museum, museum of ceramics, Kadman coins museum, copper museum (mines and metals in the countries of the Bible ), ethnography museum and the folklore museum, Tel Kassila museum, the center of human being and his toil, Planetarium, garden of views of the Land of Israel and its sites, reference library, mosaic square and wine presses. An important focal point in the field of plastic art is Tel Aviv Museum of Art, showing permanent and changing exhibitions in the home site of the museum at Shaul Hamelech Boulevard and in the Helena Rubenstein Pavilion, adjacent to the Mann Auditorium. Among the permanent collections, it is possible to find the best of Israeli painting and sculpture, beginning from creations from the twenties to modern works, European art from the 16 - 19th centuries, impressionism and post-impressionism and European and American art of the 20th century. The graphic collection of the museum includes over 20,000 prints and drawings. Among the exceptional creations in the museum: A unique selection of early pictures and sculptures of Archipanko and the work of Chagall, donated to the museum before its foundation. Inside the Helena Rubenstein Pavilion is a permanent display of the well-known Rubenstein collection of miniature rooms. The Jewish Diaspora Museum, (Beith Hatefusoth) situated in the grounds of the University of Tel Aviv, has earned itself an honorable place in the whole Jewish world as the first museum devoted to the history of the Jewish people and its contribution to creation and human culture during more than two thousand years. The permanent exhibition at the Diaspora Museum tells the story of the Jewish nation in diaspora, by means of drawings, video clips, movies and other means. The permanent display concentrates on different subjects, among them "the family circle", "the Jews", "the community", "faith", "in the family of the nations" and "the return to Zion". In additional to these museums, there are in Tel Aviv small museums, which have an individuality of their own. Like the Ben Gurion House, the Bible Museum, the Palmach Museum, the Hagana Museum, the Etzel Museum, the Author's House, Rubin Museum and the Jabotinski Institute. Each of these small museums contains a whole world, Bialik's House, for example, contains his books, his furniture and the belongings of the national poet. The private library of Bialik has been preserved, including all three thousand and more of his books. The archive at Bialik House contains thousands of handwritten works, forming the biggest collection existing of the poet's work. Recently, the project concluded of placing of sculptures and creations of art of Israeli artists, in the avenues, in the gardens, in streets and in squares, at the initiative of the municipality. From the beginning of 1988 about 60 creations like these were placed, which were added to 36 existing sculptures from previous years. 96 of the creations were created by 63 different artists, and as such they provide great diversification. In Tel Aviv-Jaffa there exists also the biggest concentration in Israel of private galleries: Upward of 40 private galleries present exhibitions and different collections to the public. The list of the museums