Exhibitions

The collections of Dr. Yirmiyahu Rimon (born in Haifa, 1933-2018), constituting one of the largest and most important private collections on the history of Palestine and Zionism, are the product of decades of enthusiastic and diligent collectorship. They bring to mind Walter Benjamin's definition, in an essay on collecting (in The Flaneur), of the collector as a courageous rebel, collecting objects not for their utilitarian value but rather according to their beauty and the memories they evoke.

This exhibition was created following the acquisition of the Rimon Collection by the Haifa Museums – a step that introduced a large private collection into the museum space. The exhibition addresses the tension between the "private collection" and the "museum collection" in the diverse

With reference to such "Cabinets of Wonder" and to the artistic-curatorial discourse that has developed in recent decades in Israel and abroad, we sought to examine the inventory of the Haifa Museums' storage rooms with a fresh gaze. We searched out the wonderful, the exotic, the amusing. In the exhibition hall we stacked objects and works arbitrarily – lacking any "class-based" hierarchy, with no commitment to chronological-historical organization or to the representation of a meta-narrative.

Haifa's neighborhoods are surrounded by a series of unique, open green expanses – the wadis, or dry ravines, that run down the slopes of the Carmel in the direction of the sea, connecting the mountaintop to the coastal plain. Wadi Siah, whose name is related to both the Hebrew and the Arabic c

The exhibition sheds light on a chapter of the city's history that is absent from most realms of memory – the portrait of Haifa's Arab society as mirrored by its architecture.

This display offers an introduction to the development of modern Haifa. The exhibits on display, the projected information, and the chronological timeline come together to tell the story of the city during three central historical periods: the Ottoman period, the British Mandate, and the period following the foundation of the state of Israel.

For many decades, New Year's greeting cards were an inseparable part of life in Israel. Along with wishes for a good new year, the captions on these cards expressed a variety of hopes: local and world peace, the return of all Jews to their homeland, and numerous other wishes for a better life.

The establishment of the Technikum (now the Technion) at the beginning of the 20th century is considered as one of the most important events in the history of Haifa city.

The exhibition focuses on a short but very influential period in the city's history, viewed by many as Haifa's ‘golden age'.