Name
|
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Location |
Primary display/topic |
Annual visitors
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ANU - Museum of the Jewish People
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
Jewish history
|
220,000[1]
|
Israel Museum
|
|
Jerusalem (Givat Ram)
|
Archaeology, art, sculpture
|
~1,000,000 (2023)[2]
|
Yad Vashem
|
|
Jerusalem (Mount Herzl)
|
Holocaust
|
~1,000,000
|
Rockefeller Museum
|
|
Jerusalem (East Jerusalem)
|
Archaeology
|
|
Siebenberg House
|
|
Jerusalem (Old City)
|
Archaeology
|
|
L. A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art
|
|
Jerusalem (Katamon)
|
Islamic art, antique clocks & watches
|
|
Gush Katif Museum
|
|
Jerusalem (Nachlaot)
|
History (Gush Katif)
|
|
Heichal Shlomo Jewish Heritage Museum
|
|
Jerusalem (King George Street)
|
Judaica
|
|
Menachem Begin Heritage Center
|
|
Jerusalem
|
Biographical – Menachem Begin
|
|
Friends of Zion Museum
|
|
Jerusalem
|
Jewish history
|
|
Beit Agnon
|
|
Jerusalem (Talpiot)
|
Biographical – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
|
|
Museum of Underground Prisoners
|
|
Jerusalem (Morasha)
|
Jewish resistance in the British Mandate
|
|
Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem
|
|
Jerusalem (Givat Ram)
|
Biblical history, archaeology
|
|
Bloomfield Science Museum
|
|
Jerusalem (Givat Ram)
|
Hands-on science and technology
|
300,000[3]
|
Ticho House
|
|
Jerusalem
|
Paintings by Anna Ticho, Judaica
|
|
Tower of David
|
|
Jerusalem (Old City)
|
History of Jerusalem
|
500,000+ (2023)[4][5]
|
Herzl museum
|
|
Jerusalem (Mount Herzl)
|
Biographical – Theodor Herzl, history of Zionism
|
|
U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art
|
|
Jerusalem
|
Italian Jewish art, Italian synagogue
|
40,000[6]
|
Jerusalem Tax Museum[7]
|
|
Jerusalem (Jaffa Road)
|
Historical documents
|
|
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
Modern art, contemporary Israeli art
|
1,070,714 (2022)[8]
|
Frenkel Frenel Museum
|
|
Safed
|
Art of Franco-Israeli painter and sculptor, Isaac Frenkel Frenel
|
|
Independence Hall
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
History of Israel (independence)
|
|
Batei HaOsef
|
|
Formerly Tel Aviv, now being transferred to Latrun
|
Israel Defense Forces
|
|
Bauhaus Museum
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
White City of Tel Aviv
|
|
Bialik House
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
|
|
Ben-Gurion House
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
David Ben-Gurion
|
|
Hetzel Museum
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
Irgun pre-state Jewish underground
|
|
Etzel House (Beit Gidi)
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
Irgun – Operation Hametz
|
|
Steinhardt Museum of Natural History
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
Natural history
|
|
Yitzhak Rabin Center
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
Yitzhak Rabin
|
100,000[9]
|
HerzLilienblum Museum of Banking and Tel Aviv Nostalgia[10]
|
|
Tel Aviv
|
Banking and old Tel Aviv culture
|
|
Lehi Museum – Beit Yair
|
|
Tel Aviv (Florentin)
|
Lehi
|
|
The Olympic Experience
|
|
Tel Aviv (Hadar Yosef)
|
Sports
|
|
Nahum Gutman Museum of Art
|
|
Tel Aviv (Neve Tzedek)
|
Art by Nachum Gutman
|
|
Farkash Gallery collection
|
|
Tel Aviv (Old Jaffa)
|
Posters
|
|
Ilana Goor Museum
|
|
Tel Aviv (Old Jaffa)
|
Israeli art and culture
|
|
Jaffa Museum
|
|
Tel Aviv (Old Jaffa)
|
Israeli art and culture, antiquities
|
|
Eretz Israel Museum
|
|
Tel Aviv (Museum Campus)
|
Archaeology, history of Eretz Yisrael
|
|
Beit HaPalmach
|
|
Tel Aviv (Ramat Aviv)
|
Jewish resistance during the British Mandate – Palmach
|
|
Haifa Museum
|
|
Haifa
|
Contemporary Israeli art
|
|
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art
|
|
Haifa
|
Japanese art
|
|
Israel Railway Museum
|
|
Haifa
|
Transportation – railways
|
|
Israeli Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum
|
|
Haifa
|
Israel Defense Forces – Sea Corps
|
|
Israeli National Maritime Museum
|
|
Haifa
|
Maritime history
|
|
Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space
|
|
Haifa
|
Science and technology, hands-on exhibits
|
400,000[11]
|
Moshe Shteklis Museum of Prehistory
|
|
Haifa
|
History – prehistory
|
|
Hecht Museum
|
|
Haifa
|
Archaeology, Art
|
|
Munio Gitai Weinraub Museum of Architecture
|
|
Haifa
|
Architecture
|
|
Mane-Katz Museum
|
|
Haifa
|
Art
|
|
Arad Bible Museum
|
|
Arad
|
Archaeology
|
|
Arad Doll Museum
|
|
Arad
|
Comedia del arte figures, handcrafted dolls[12]
|
|
Arad Glass Museum
|
|
Arad
|
Glass sculpture
|
|
Arad Museum of Art
|
|
Arad
|
Art
|
|
Beit HaGdudim
|
|
Avihayil
|
Jewish Legion
|
|
Ashdod Museum of Art
|
|
Ashdod
|
Art
|
|
Karin Maman Museum
|
|
Ashdod
|
Archaeology
|
|
Negev Museum of Art
|
|
Beersheba
|
Art
|
|
Biblical Museum of Natural History
|
|
Beit Shemesh
|
Hands-on animals, Torah, history and science
|
|
Ralli Museum
|
|
Caesarea
|
Art
|
|
Ein Harod Museum of Art (Mishkan)
|
|
Ein Harod
|
Art
|
|
Sturman Museum
|
|
Ein Harod
|
Natural history
|
|
Janco Dada Museum
|
|
Ein Hod
|
Art (Israeli)
|
|
Wilfrid Israel Museum
|
|
HaZore'a
|
Art (Asian)
|
|
Israeli Air Force Museum
|
|
Hatzerim Airbase
|
Israel Defense Forces – Air Force
|
|
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art[13]
|
|
Herzliya
|
Art (contemporary Israeli)
|
|
Holon Children's Museum
|
|
Holon
|
Children; visually impaired; hearing impaired
|
|
Design Museum Holon
|
|
Holon
|
Design
|
|
Egged Historical Vehicle Museum
|
|
Holon
|
Transportation – buses
|
|
Yad La-Shiryon
|
|
Latrun
|
Israel Defense Forces – Armor Corps
|
|
Mini Israel
|
|
Latrun
|
Miniature park, architecture
|
|
Ghetto Fighters' House
|
|
Lohamei HaGeta'ot
|
Holocaust and Jewish Resistance
|
|
Museum of Prehistory of the Hulah Valley
|
|
Ma'ayan Barukh
|
Archaeology
|
|
Masada Museum
|
|
Masada
|
History of Masada
|
|
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
|
|
Netanya
|
Sports
|
|
Petah Tikva Museum of Art
|
|
Petah Tikva
|
Art
|
|
Museum of Israeli Art
|
|
Ramat Gan
|
Art (Israeli)
|
|
Museum of Russian Art
|
|
Ramat Gan
|
Art (Russian)
|
|
Yehiel Nahari Museum of Far Eastern Art
|
|
Ramat Gan
|
Art (Far Eastern)
|
|
Yemenite Jewish Heritage Center and Museum
|
|
Rehovot
|
Yemenite Jewish Heritage
|
|
Rishon LeZion City Museum
|
|
Rishon LeZion
|
City
|
|
The Arab Museum of Contemporary Art
|
|
Sakhnin
|
Art (Contemporary Arab, Israeli and Mediterranean Art)
|
|
Museum for Archaeology and Knowledge of Israel
|
|
Sasa
|
Archaeology
|
|
Qassam Museum
|
|
Sderot
|
Qassam rockets
|
|
German-Speaking Jewry Heritage Museum Tefen
|
|
Tefen Industrial Zone
|
Jewish history
|
|
Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery[14][15]
|
|
Umm al-Fahm
|
Art (Arab)
|
40,000 (2010)[16]
|
Beit HaTotchan
|
|
Zikhron Ya'akov
|
Israel Defense Forces – Artillery Corps
|
|
Urigeller Museum
|
|
Old Jaffa, Tel Aviv-Yafo
|
Art, History
|
|