The Haifa Museum of Art established in 1951, is located in a historic building built in the 1930's in Wadi Nisnas

Wadi Nisnas

Wadi Nisnas is an Arab neighborhood in the city of Haifa in northern Israel. Nisnas is the Arabic word for mongoose, an indigenous animal. The wadi has a population of about 8,000 inhabitants....

, Downtown Haifa

Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...

. The museum focuses on Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i and international contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

, 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

School of Paris

School of Paris refers to two distinct groups of artists — a group of medieval manuscript illuminators, and a group of non-French artists working in Paris before World War I...

 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

Israeli National Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum in Haifa, Israel was founded in 1953. It is based on the private collection of its founder and first director, Aryeh Ben- Eli....

 and the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art

Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art

The Museum of Japanese Art on the crest of Mount Carmel is dedicated exclusively to the preservation and exhibition of Japanese art works, and is the only one of its kind in the Middle East. The Museum is a municipal foundation, set up in 1959, on the initiative of Felix Tikotin of The Netherlands,...

.

The Museum of Ancient Art, housed in the university of Haifa

University of Haifa

The University of Haifa is a university in Haifa, Israel.The University of Haifa was founded in 1963 by Haifa mayor Abba Hushi, to operate under the academic auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....

, which specializes in archeological finds discovered in Israel and the Mediterranean basin, was inaugurated in 1984.

External links

• Haifa Museum of art
• The Haifa Museum of Art in ilMuseums.com
• The HFA Museums, in haifamuseums.org