Museums & galleries in Jerusalem
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16 places
Museums & galleriesBible Lands Museum JerusalemGivat Ram (Museum Row)A museum of the ancient Near East next door to the Israel Museum, arranged chronologically through the civilisations of the Bible — Mesopotamia, Egypt, Canaan, Persia — around one private collection. Daily guided tours in English are included in the ticket.
English spokenCallDirections- Museums & galleriesBloomfield Science MuseumGivat Ram
Jerusalem's hands-on science museum on the Givat Ram campus, where touching is the point: interactive exhibits, demonstrations, shows and workshops across two wings, with explanations in Hebrew, English and Arabic. Entry is by advance ticket reservation only.
- Museums & galleriesFriends of Zion MuseumCity centre (Nahalat Shiva area)
A multimedia museum in the city centre telling the story of non-Jews who supported the Jewish return to Zion, through a sequence of hologram and projection halls. It is seen only on a guided tour, which must be booked in advance.
English spokenCallDirections - Museums & galleriesHebrew Music MuseumNahalat Shiva
A museum of Jewish musical instruments in Nahalat Shiva, laid out as seven spaces for seven diaspora cultures, with instruments you can hear and play and a VR element. Visits are done either with a live guide or with a tablet guide.
English spokenCallDirections - Museums & galleriesHerzl MuseumMount Herzl
An audio-visual museum at the entrance to Mount Herzl that walks visitors through Theodor Herzl's life and the birth of political Zionism in a guided sequence of rooms. Visits are by advance booking only; the same centre runs guided tours of Mount Herzl itself.
English spokenCallDirections - Museums & galleriesIsrael MuseumGivat Ram (Museum Row)
Israel's national museum, spread over a hilltop campus on Museum Row: the Shrine of the Book with the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Second Temple model of Jerusalem, the archaeology and Jewish art wings, fine-art galleries and the Billy Rose sculpture garden. One ticket covers the whole campus.
- Museums & galleriesIsrael Museum (Ruth Youth Wing)Givat Ram (Museum Row)
The Israel Museum's wing for art education: changing exhibitions pitched at children, working art studios, a library of illustrated children's books and a recycling room. It sits inside the main campus and is covered by the museum ticket.
- Museums & galleriesMenachem Begin Heritage CenterAbove the Hinnom Valley, near Yemin Moshe
An experiential multimedia museum above the Hinnom Valley telling the story of Menachem Begin and, through him, the Irgun, the long opposition years and the premiership, using reconstructions, documentary film and interactive screens. The museum is seen on a pre-booked guided tour.
English spokenDirections - Museums & galleriesMuseum for Islamic ArtTalbiyeh (HaPalmach St)
The L. A. Mayer museum of Islamic art on HaPalmach St, with ceramics, metalwork, glass, jewellery and manuscripts from across the Islamic world, plus the celebrated collection of antique European clocks and watches. A small, calm museum that rarely gets crowded.
English spokenCallDirections - Museums & galleriesMuseum on the SeamMusrara / the old seam line
A socio-political contemporary art museum in a bullet-scarred building that stood on the 1948–1967 dividing line between the two halves of Jerusalem, mounting exhibitions on conflict, identity and coexistence. The roof looks out across the old seam.
- Museums & galleriesRockefeller Archaeological MuseumEast Jerusalem, near Herod's Gate
A white limestone Mandate-era museum just outside the Old City walls near Herod's Gate, holding finds from excavations across the country between 1919 and 1948, displayed largely as they were laid out when the building opened. It has been run as part of the Israel Museum since 1968.
- Museums & galleriesThe Train TheaterTalbiyeh (Liberty Bell Park)
A children's puppet theatre in a converted railway carriage in Liberty Bell Park, staging shows for roughly ages 2 to 12 and running the annual Jerusalem International Puppet Festival each summer.
4.7(269 reviews)CallDirections - Museums & galleriesTicho HouseCity centre (off HaRav Kook St)
The nineteenth-century house off HaRav Kook St where the artist Anna Ticho lived and worked, now a downtown branch of the Israel Museum showing her Jerusalem landscape drawings alongside her husband's Judaica collection and visiting exhibitions. It reopened in 2025 after a year of conservation work.
- Museums & galleriesTime ElevatorMamilla
A motion-seat cinema in Mamilla running a 3,000-year journey through Jerusalem's history, narrated by the late Chaim Topol, in a hall of moving seats and 360-degree screens. A second show travels inside the human body, and the venue also runs a guided VR tour of Poland.
- Museums & galleriesTower of David Jerusalem MuseumJaffa Gate, Old City
The citadel at Jaffa Gate, reopened in June 2023 after a decade-long renewal, with ten galleries telling Jerusalem's story through archaeology, film and interactive displays, plus the moat, the archaeological courtyard and the 360-degree view from Phasael Tower.
English spokenCallDirections - Museums & galleriesYad VashemHar HaZikaron (Mount of Remembrance)
The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, a 45-acre campus holding the Holocaust History Museum, the Museum of Holocaust Art, the Children's Memorial, the Hall of Names, the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations and the Valley of the Communities. Entrance is free but every visit must be reserved in advance.
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