Exhibitions

The works in the exhibition record male figures who have struggled for decades with an unabated will to adjust to a new place. Ribka chose to document them here, understanding that they have built a place that allows them to work at something they are good at, a place where they are able to create something new and reap the fruits of their success.

The Israeli motorcar industry became entwined with Israel’s life-story from the day the State was born.
The riveting narrative of the industry’s establishment in Haifa gives a glimpse of a vision: to make Israel a part of the international automobile scene. Its car factories, and especially the Autocars Company that assembled the familiar Sussita car, constitute a notable chapter in the first three decades of statehood.

A dystopian vision appeared to Odin Shadmi's mind after working in the hi-tech industry. In her vision, our world is at a critical junction in time: progress, in which we've invested such a huge effort, overtakes us, leaving behind nothing but small traces of authentic nature. Following a dichotomous life experience, moving between the world of hi-tech and progress and a connection to nature, Shadmi decided to act.

Be’eriMicha BrikmanAt dawn on Shabbat, 7th October 2023 - the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah - reality outside the Gaza Strip and in all Israel changed dramatically. Terrorists of the murderous Hamas organization breached the border fence and began a conquest of the Israeli kibbutzim

The historic “Flower Show” returns to HaifaThe traditional Haifa festival that was celebrated over four decades returns to the Haifa City Museum. Visitors will be introduced to the nostalgic history of the Flower Show and the city of Haifa, and at the same time discover a new and

The exhibition presents some of the personas assumed by Peter. They are offered for viewers to choose, as masks that will either hide them or set them free. We do not have to choose one mask only. We may change masks and metamorphose whenever we want, whether through a physical or a virtual mask.

Maja Gratzfeld came from Germany to Israel as part of a student exchange program with the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. In Jerusalem she met her partner, and together they decided to start a family in Haifa. During the COVID-19 period, Gratzfeld found herself with a newborn baby, in a new country, struggling to get by in a foreign language. With movement restricted to a 500-meter radius of her home under the lockdown regulations, in a nearby park she met a few elderly women, nannies aged fifty to seventy who make their livings taking care of other people's children, and they became her community. It was no coincidence that Gratzfeld met them in a public park in Haifa's Carmel area, whose population is typically of a high socio-economic ranking that can afford such service.

Curator: Yifat Ashkenazi

The clusters of abandoned-sealed and ruined buildings are like monuments in the urban landscape - reminders of historical turning points in Haifa's narrative. The city is a collection of buildings with a story, a puzzle of textures that allow for a complex reading of its history and the forces that shaped its unique form. The book and the exhibition Lower Haifa trace a complex urban portrait at a specific point in time. This collection of photographs raises questions regarding the city, its history, its politics, and its future. The layer revealed to us in the photographs will also eventually come to be covered by another layer and will be transformed over the years.

Mike Brant is still considered one of the most successful Israeli singers of all time, and an international Israeli legend. In his short career abroad, he recorded dozens of songs that conquered the hit parades, was featured on the front covers of hundreds of magazines, and performed for tens of thousands of fans.
Although Brant’s international career flourished, in Israel he sank initially between Arik Einstein and Yigal Bashan, between Sipurei Poogy of the Kaveret group and Sof Onat Hatapuzim of the Tammuz rock band. He never made it into the canon of Israeli music and entertainment. That said, there has never been an Israeli singer, either before or since Brant, who has attracted as much adulation after his death. Almost five decades since his tragic demise, his albums and songs continue to be sold in large numbers, both in Israel and abroad. Ultimately, in the local context, he can be said to have secured his place in the pantheon of Israeli music.

This exhibition marks three decades since that major wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union. The influx made a decisive impact on Israel, not only in terms of its sheer numbers, but in the distinct culture and outlook that the new immigrants brought with them. Although they settled throughout the country, the city of Haifa stood out because of the size of the community that made its home there. Its presence began to be felt throughout the city, on Russian-language signs, in shops, a variety of workplaces, and more. The new immigrants were able to preserve their old culture and traditions almost entirely, while at the same time acclimating to their new country. They rebuilt their lives in Israel – and within it, Haifa – achieving in essence their own private perestroika.