This year on Independence day you may choose how much you want to pay at the entrance and enjoy all the good things the Museum has to offer, including temporary and permanent exhibitions, the art garden, and special activities for the whole family!

Tickets must be purchased in advance on the website

Matan Ben Cnaan’s monumental painting The Bureaucrat presents a dramatic moment involving a large crowd of women, men, and children in an open landscape. What is happening? Who is the “bureaucrat” standing at the center, clipboard in hand? The eminent Israeli author David Grossman took a long, hard look at this work and proposed a reading that scrutinizes details while offering a broad overview.

In December 1919, following a stormy passage from Odessa, the SS Ruslan landed at the port of Jaffa. This ship is often called the Mayflower of the Land of Israel, since its 600 passengers included many figures who would enter the Zionist pantheon: intellectuals and ideologues, artists and poets, leaders and activists.