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Address Shabtai Levi St 26, Haifa, 3304331, Israel Hours Closed now Tuesday10AM–4PMWednesday10AM–4PMThursday4–7PMFriday10AM–1PMSaturday10AM–3PMSunday10AM–4PMMonday10AM–4PM Similar Tikotin Museum of Japanese, City Museum, Mané Katz Museum, Hermann Struck Museum, Israeli National Maritime | ||
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The Haifa Museum of Art (Hebrew: מוזיאון חיפה לאמנות, Arabic: متحف حيفا للفنون), established in 1951, is located in a historic building built in the 1930s in Wadi Nisnas, downtown Haifa. Ranking as Israel's third largest art museum, the museum focuses on Israeli and international contemporary art, and its collection includes 7,000 items, mostly of contemporary Israeli art.
Other institutions under the auspices of the Haifa Museums iunclude the Mané Catz Museum dedicated to paintings from the School of Paris and Jewish artifacts; and the City Museum of Haifan History, located in the Germany Colony.
Also under the Museum's aegis are the Museum of Prehistory, the Israeli National Maritime Museum and the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art.
The Museum of Ancient Art, housed in the university of Haifa, which specializes in archaeological finds discovered in Israel and the Mediterranean basin, was inaugurated in 1984.