The National Maritime Museum in Haifa

All the information about the National Maritime Museum in Haifa Want to go on adventures? Come and discover national treasures and fascinating exhibits from the fields of shipping, underwater archaeology, and ancient art at the National Maritime Museum. The museum is designed so that visitors of all ages—and all family members—can find their place here. For those who love experiential activities, the museum offers a variety of options, such as interactive digital activities, games, costumes, photography, watching film clips, and more. For those who want to deepen their knowledge and conduct research, the museum provides wonderful and rare exhibits, as well as comprehensive, fascinating historical information. At the Maritime Museum, new areas have been established in order to adapt the unique topics covered by the National Maritime Museum to every segment of the visiting public. Our exhibition areas and the new areas throughout the museum will give visitors an opportunity to connect with and understand the deep significance of the sea for human beings, and to develop awareness and caring regarding the ecological health issue of the sea that lies before us—all in an accessible way, full of opportunities to be curious, to play, and to learn new things. The museum currently presents a variety of diverse and unique areas, including: Our Sea, Tel HaDagin, Time in a Capsule, Home Port, Young Sailors, Pirates—between truth and legend, Save it! SOS, Courtyard of the Lower Deck. A new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Haifa: "Sea and Everything in It." A solo exhibition by Rami Klein presents an unusual—artistic, poetic, and scientific—perspective on marine nature. The exhibition is accompanied by an active space for the whole family, with a variety of workshops, including: Symbiosis in the Sea: creating an animation video using stop-motion technique, whose protagonists are animals in the coral reef that cooperate with each other; A Song for the Reef: connecting songs inspired by photographs from the exhibition, which will be showcased on a magnetic board; a Sea Games corner, and more. More about the museum: The museum is located at the southern entrance to Haifa and attracts thousands of visitors each year. In its storerooms, national treasures and fascinating exhibits from the fields of shipping, underwater archaeology, and ancient art are hidden. The large collection reflects the immense power of the sea in shaping the culture, religion, and economy of the Mediterranean basin over thousands of years. We are here—in modern Israel, as well as in the Haifa area—a link in the chain of this history. It is fascinating to see the importance of the sea in the geographical context of the Land of Israel and the surroundings of Haifa in particular—from ancient times to the present day. Alongside this, the sea is connected to burning universal topics, such as the ecological health of the seas and oceans and the damage done to them, migration from the Third World countries via the sea, and more. Against the backdrop of these topics, the museum's activities encourage encounters between researchers, professionals, environmental activists, and diverse audiences.