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Ticho House (, Beit Tikho) is a historical home in Jerusalem, now a museum administered as part of the Israel Museum and also hosting temporary exhibitions, which also houses an Italian café. It was one of the first homes built outside the Old City walls in the 19th century. Ticho House, Jerusalem at israel-in-photos.com. Re-accessed 28 May 2024.
Among its first occupants was the family of the antiquities dealer Moses Wilhelm Shapira, whose daughter Myriam Harry described growing up there in her memoir, La petite flle de Jerusalem. The family lived there between 1873 and 1883.
In 1924, Dr. Abraham Albert Ticho, an ophthalmologist, and his wife, Anna Ticho, an artist, bought the house. Peeking through the highrises: famed Jerusalem street's old architectural glories, Moshe Gilad for Haaretz, Aug 29, 2012 (subscription needed as of 2024). Dr. Ticho was stabbed and seriously wounded during the 1929 Palestine riots. Physicians group protests Ticho attack, 19 Nov 1929, JTA. Re-accessed 28 May 2024. Thousands of Jews, Christians and Arabs prayed for his recovery. When he was able to return to work, he opened a new clinic on the first floor of Beit Ticho and continued to take patients there until his retirement in 1950. Ticho House - Israel Museum Trachoma was widespread in Jerusalem at the time, and he often treated hundreds of patients per day. The days and years of the Tichos, Judy Siegel-Itzkovich for The Jerusalem Post, 21 February 2015. Re-accessed 28 May 2024.
The Tichos hosted local and British government officials in their home, as well as artists, writers, academics and intellectuals.
Anna Ticho bequeathed the house and its contents, including her husband's Judaica collections and library, to the Israel Museum.
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