Museum of the Diaspora (still referred to as a museum of the Jewish people) named Nahum Goldmann is located in a very beautiful garden campus of Tel Aviv University. It was opened in 1978, to the thirtieth anniversary of Israel's independence, and at the time was one of the most innovative museums in the world.

The museum collection traces the history and development of the Jewish Diaspora all over the world for thousands of years. The idea of ​​creating such a center yet formulated in 1959, president of the World Jewish Congress, Nahum Goldmann - so the museum bears his name.

The history of the Jewish communities scattered across multiple countries, begins about 2,600 years ago, when the Chaldean King Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem, destroyed the First Temple and sent the Jews into Babylonian captivity. This tells shrill 136th psalm repeatedly set to music, including contemporary, "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept when we remembered Zion ..."

It is from this great event began the process of scattering of the Jews throughout the world. Some of the Jews returned to their homeland after the capture, but in Mesopotamia, Egypt, North Africa, Syria, Iran, Greece any Jewish community, linked by a common culture and religion. The defeat of the Jews by the Romans in 66 led to a new exodus of Jews in Mesopotamia, where for eight centuries was their spiritual and intellectual center. Immigration flows flowed well on the Balkans, in southern France, the Iberian Peninsula. But the quiet life of the people is not gained: in 1290 the Jews were expelled from England in 1394 - in France, in 1492 - from Spain. This series ended with a bloody Jewish national catastrophe - the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.

The museum collection dedicated to the diversity of Jewish life in different countries, divided into six thematic sections: "Family", "Community", "Faith", "Culture", "among the nations", "Return to Zion" .  In the section devoted to the family, presented everyday objects, models of Jewish homes all over the world .  You can get acquainted with the lifestyle of families in common, and public holidays, and in the section devoted to the communities, to watch films about their lives .  Section "Religion" shows the layout of synagogues of all countries and ages (there is even a Chinese synagogue) .  The section "Culture" tells, for example, the revival and development of the Hebrew language in the XIX-XX centuries .  The museum presents an extensive collection of texts of poems and prayers in praise of Zion, photographs, describing the illegal immigration of Jews to Palestine in the first half of the XX century .  Center for visual documentation of the museum has more than 100 thousands of photos and videos that reflect all facets of the life of the Jewish Diaspora .

It also established a genealogical center "Dorot", whose computer database contains data on more than half a million Jewish names, families and communities around the world. Any visitor, in whose veins there is a drop of Jewish blood, can find here the origin and meaning of his name.