The Jaffa Museum of Antiquities sits inside a building that has been many things: a Crusader fortress, an Ottoman administrative office, a post office and a prison. The present stone structure dates to the eighteenth century and once served as the seat of Ottoman municipal power before finding its current, more contemplative purpose.

Inside, artefacts span some eight thousand years of human activity, reflecting the parade of civilisations that passed through this port: Canaanites, Egyptians, Persians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans. The collection was assembled by Israeli archaeologist Jacob Kaplan, who spent decades excavating Old Jaffa.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use the immediate surroundings to trace Jaffa's layered past, connecting the cannons, caravanserais and soap factories of the Ottoman era to the founding families who arrived here in the nineteenth century and helped build modern Tel Aviv.