Exhibitions

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'.

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.