Haifa Museum

A few hundred yards northeast of the Persian Gardens, at 26 Shabtai Levi Street, is the Haifa Museum, which since 1977 has included the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Ancient Art. The Museum also has departments of ethnography and folklore and a section devoted to Jewish ritual art. The collections of the Museum of Ancient Art include material from Caesarea and Byzantine mosaics from Shiqmona. The Museum of Modern Art displays pictures by Israeli and foreign (Western European, American, Japanese) artists from the 18th century to the present day. There are several rooms used for special exhibitions, an auditorium and a reading room. Illustrated lectures are given in the evenings.