Tel Aviv-Yafo City Museum

This guide to the Tel Aviv-Yafo City Museum traces a building put up in 1925 by brothers Philip and Isidore Skora as an apartment hotel, and how the guests never really came before the young municipality leased it and, by 1928, bought it outright. It follows founder-mayor Meir Dizengoff's upstairs chamber, where he received figures from the poet Bialik to British Mandate officials, through close to four decades as the city's administrative heart.