Name |
| Location | Primary display/topic | Annual visitors |
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Historical documents |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 |
|