Museums in Israel

Top Museums & Memorials

Explore Israel’s historical and artistic legacy through these essential landmarks. In Jerusalem, the 2,700-year-old Tower of David and the Israel Museum—housing the Dead Sea Scrolls—offer deep archaeological insights. The Yad Va'Shem memorial provides a somber look at Holocaust history. Moving to Tel Aviv, the Museum of Art features works by Picasso and Kandinsky, while the Illana Gur Museum presents an eclectic private collection in Jaffa. The selection is rounded out by the modernist Great Synagogue and the politically significant Rabin Square.

Top Museums & Memorials — Map

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Tower of David

The city's Citadel known as the Tower of David dates more than 2.700 years back.

עברית: רוברט אידניאנה, נולד ב-1928 / GFDL

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Israel Museum

The largest cultural museum in the country founded in 1965, holds a mind-blowing collection of archaeological artefacts, scrolls and…

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Shrine of the Book

The Shrine of the Book is a wing of the Israel Museum in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem that houses the Dead Sea Scrolls and the…

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Yad Va'Shem

Visit the world's largest memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust - this immense complex is full of informative exhibits and moving…

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Tel Aviv Museum of Arts

Tel Aviv Museum of Art is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and…

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Rabin Square

Rabin Square, formerly Kings of Israel Square, is a main large public city square in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Illana Gur Museum

Gloriously rich collection of serious as well as humorous, naive, secular, refined art. Truly unique private collection!

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Tel Aviv Great Synagogue

Designed by Yehuda Magidovitch, this synagogue was built in 1926 and then restored in the 70's.

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