Exhibitions

During the Ottoman period, many marked changes occurred in Haifa and its environs.

This exhibition focuses on the decade following the War of Independence - a time during which Haifa ceased to be an ethnically mixed, bi-national city, and became a Jewish working-class city. s.

The "Masks and Magic" exhibition features folkloric masks from the Museum of Marseille's collection of African, Oceanic and Indian Art.

This exhibition cluster is concerned with the local historiography of Haifa, from the perspective of local female artists. Their works offer unique alternatives to the his-story written by men.
The cluster is composed of four exhibitions: Imagined Reality; Efrat Natan: Striding and Reaping; Yael Bartana: Summer Camp and Manar Zuabi..

In this exhibition, the story of Haifa's development over the first half of the 20th century is presented through hundreds of historical photographs.

In October 1905, the "Valley Train" line from Haifa to Damascus was inaugurated as part of the Hijaz Railway project. The exhibition tells the mythological story of the Valley Train through the use of photographs, maps, aerial photos, documents and written correspondence.

The fact that fairy tales are universal, transcending time and place, enabled each of the illustrators to create "new fairy tales" with new messages consistent with the present times.

This exhibition is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Ranan Lurie, one of the world's leading political caricaturists.

The Shemen (oil) plant was one of the pioneering industrial plants around the Haifa Bay. Shortly after its foundation, in 1906, the plant was called Atid (future).

During the second half of the 19th century, numerous Western travelers with a penchant for Orientalism journeyed to the Holy Land. In 1882, Elise and Lawrence Oliphant and a group of family members and friends settled in the German colony in Haifa (at what is currently 16 Ben-Gurion Boulevard).