Exhibitions

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.

You are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibitions on Saturday 25 July 2017, 8.00 pm.

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

This exhibition of works by Hamody Gannam (b. 1986, Haifa) is the fascinating product of the time spent by Gannam over the past year in Haifa's Downtown area.

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.

Porcelain, a sign of European material culture, was imported decades before the Establishment of the State into domestic space in an attempt to preserve the aromas of times past.

Ze'ev (Wilhelm) Aleksandrowicz (Kraków 1905 Tel-Aviv, 1992) first arrived in Palestine as a tourist, towards the end of 1932. He produced hundreds of photographs and returned to visit in the second half of 1934 and in 1935.

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.

The city of Haifa provides a unique perspective on the working class, in Israel, due to the constant class struggle between workers and capital rule in the city.