Exhibitions
Glassware in Antiquity
The secret of glassmaking was already known in the ancient world: take sand that is rich in silica, quartz, and potassium salts, heat it gradually to 1100 Celsius, and you will get an almost liquid, mailable material. Once the liquid has cooled down and solidified, you will have lumps of raw glass that can be remelted and fashioned into vessels and jewelry.
We’re on the Map! Cartography—The Art of Mapmaking
Cartography, the science of maps and mapping, is an ancient craft that may even predate the invention of writing. Already in antiquity, maps of cities and countries had been drawn up in various civilizations around the world, such as China, Mesopotamia, and Greece.
Transportable | Faina Feigin Landau
New exhibition
A massive wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia profoundly reshaped Israel's social landscape during the turbulent 1990s. In response to the country's housing crisis caused by the growing influx, temporary residential neighborhoods known as 'Caravan Sites' were established to accommodate the newly arrived immigrants. As many as 30,000 mobile homes were installed in various locations throughout Israel, including Haifa, and soon developed into immigrant communities. Those neighborhoods and the lives forged within them, through challenges and hardships, constitute an important chapter in the history of Israel and the city of Haifa.
Saturday, 01.08.26
Here, There, and Nowhere
New exhibition
The exhibition Here, There, and Nowhere explores representations of landscape in works from the Haifa Museums' collections and invites viewers to move between the familiar, the Other, and the unknown. This exhibition showcases the dynamic visual language of printmaking, its various techniques, and how this medium is used to interpret and examine space.
Thursday, 31.12.26
In Praise of Shadows | Silence in the Time of Light
New exhibition
The exhibition In Praise of Shadows seeks to observe shadow not as an absence of light, but as a place where memory, mystery, and imagination exist; a place where things are not fully revealed. It unfolds as a movement between tradition and modernity, between classical Japanese printmaking and contemporary printmaking and photography, and current paper, ink, and ceramic works. But most of all, it seeks to trace one elusive quality – the way in which shadow gives the world aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual depth.
Saturday, 28.11.26
The Fish Mound
“Shikmona” | Tell es-Samak
The Fish Mound (Tell HaDagim), located at the shore in Haifa, is an extraordinary time capsule. Findings from the site open a window into Haifa's ancient past, when, like today, it was a center of trade and industry.
SOS!
This exhibit urges all of us to raise awareness of the rapid ecological destruction taking place in our marine environment. It invites us to join thousands of activists in Israel and worldwide in participating in both small- and large-scale actions in support of the ocean’s ecological health.
The Athlit Ram
One of the most important and rare discoveries of underwater archaeology in Israel is that of the Athlit ram. It was discovered by the late Yehoshua Ramon in 1980, in the northern bay of Athlit, and was retrieved from the sea by the staff and students of the Maritime Civilizations Department at the Centre for Marine Studies at Haifa University.
Anchors
One of the concerns of seafarers of all times has been how to halt their vessel in mid-ocean when necessary. The first sailors solved the problem by lowering a rock tied to a rope onto the sea-bed.
Scientific Instruments
Mathematical instruments are intended for measuring angles and distances, and are applied to astronomy, topography and navigation. Some have wider uses as drawing instruments or to measure time. Very few have been left from ancient times. Some Chinese jades, some Greek terra-cottas, some bronze fragments are all that remain from those early periods.