Weizmann House, Residential museum in Rehovot, Israel.
Weizmann House is a residential museum in Rehovot, Israel, built as a private home and now open to visitors. The two-story building has a central tower, white rendered walls, and a garden with terraced levels that lead down to a small pool.
In 1934 Chaim Weizmann, then living in England, asked Erich Mendelsohn to design his house in Rehovot after hearing of Mendelsohn's Schocken House in Jerusalem. Negotiations over cost and program lasted until August 1935; construction took about a year and the Weizmanns took ownership in January 1937. From 1949 until Weizmann's death on 9 November 1952 the house served as the official residence of Israel's first president. It became a museum in 1978.
The rooms still hold the original furniture and personal objects the family used during their daily life, including books, gifts, and items brought from abroad. Walking through the house feels less like visiting a monument and more like stepping into someone's home.
The house sits within the Weizmann Institute of Science campus in Rehovot, and it is easy to reach on foot once you are inside the main entrance. Guided tours help make sense of the rooms and their contents, so it is worth checking in advance whether tours are offered in your language.
The Lincoln Cosmopolitan on display in a small metal pavilion beside the house was a 1950 gift from Henry Ford II and served as Weizmann's official presidential car. The house was featured on an Israeli postage stamp in 1991.
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