FREE Museum Day 2026!

Sorry for the late post, but you need to know that TOMORROW, Monday, May 18, 2026, is FREE Museum Day in Israel!!

There are over 100 participating museums - - there's something for everyone!!

Find the full list here: https://www.icom.org.il/event/4609

Note: Some museums require advance registration, and some may already be fully booked. But there are plenty still available!

Examples from the list of participating museums:

The Eli Cohen Museum

The Herzliya Museum

The Israeli Cartoon Museum

The Lod Mosaics Museum

The Agam Museum

The Chlore Science Garden

The Yemenite Jewish Heritage Museum

The Ramat Gan Israeli Art Museum

The Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Museum

Yad Vashem

The Old Yishuv Court Museum

The Israel Museum

The Tower of David Museum

The Yigal Alon Museum

First Aliyah Museum

Technoda Hadera

The Haifa Train Museum

The Khan Museum

Haifa City Museums

Madatech

The Ghetto Fighters' Museum

The Akko Underground Prisoners Museum

Ralli Museum

Chanah Senesh House

AND MORE!

Let me know where you decide to go!

Have fun! 

International Museum Day - FREE Museum Admission!

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Don't miss this! International Museum Day is here - Get FREE admission on May 9, 2024 to the museum of your choice: Choose from the list of participating museums below!

Looking for something else to do? Check out these workshops, tours, and more!

NOTE: Some of the museums require advance registration.

Be sure to visit the ICOM site and register to avoid disappointment.

Participating Museums:

Center/Merkaz:

Beit HaGedudim

Man and The Living World Museum

Fetter Museum of Art and Nanoscience at The Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials

Liebling Haus - White City Centre

Rishon Lezion City Art Gallery

Museum of the Sea at Palmachim

The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History

Gallery 10 at Beit Michal

Edmond de Rothschild Centre

Rishon Lezion Museum

Botanical Gardens at Kfar Monash

Holon History Museum and Archive

Lechi Museum

Tel Aviv City Museum

Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art

Ramle Museum

Weizmann Museum

Netanya History Museum

Ilana Gur Museum

Petah Tikvah Museum of Art

Bank of Israel Visitors Center

Ramat HaSharon Geological Museum

The Religious Zionism Center

Mazkeret Batya Settlement Museum

Josef Bau Museum

The Land of Israel Museum

The Shenker Israeli Design Center

Petach Tikvah Pioneers Museum

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Rechovot City Art Gallery

Bat Yam Museums

Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

Agam Museum

Rubin House Museum

Etzel 1948 Museum

Rechovot Miniatures Museum

Museum of Babylonian Jewry

Israeli Comics Museum

Puppetry Arts Museum

Jewish Sports Museum

Anu Museum of the Jewish People

Museum of Man and the Environment

Yad L'Banim Rechovot

Kfar Sava Museum

Hagana Museum

Nachum Guttman Art Museum

Yitzchak Rabin Center 

Bialik Center

The Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center

The Azor Archaeology Museum

Beit Theresienstadt

Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center

Jerusalem Area

Heichal Shlomo

Old Yishuv Court Museum

Museum on the Seam

The Bloomfield Jerusalem Museum of Science

The Museum of Islamic Art

The Moshe Castel Museum of Art

Tower of David Museum

Museum of Italian Jewry

The Hebron Visitors Center "Touching eternity"

Hasmonean Heritage Museum

Yad VaShem

The President's Hut

Museum of The Underground Prisoners Jerusalem

Jerusalem Nature Museum

Karaite Heritage Center

The Bible Lands Museum

The Israel Museum

South

Ben Gurion's Hut

The Photo House

Museum of Bedouin Culture

The Negev Museum of Art and The Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures

Museum of Philistine Culture

Eilat Art Gallery

North

The Mizgaga Museum

Madatek 

Ein Dor Museum

Khan Museum of Hadera

Sturman Museum

The Emek Museum

Mishkan Museum of Art

Wilifred Museum

Knights' Halls, Old Akko

Uri & Rami Nehoshtan Museum

Ghetto Fighters' House Lohamei HaGeta'ot

Haifa Museum of Art

Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art

National Maritime Museum

Haifa City Museum

Hermann Struck Museum

Dubrovin Farm

Bet She'an Museum

ORRYTA Gallery

Circassian Museum

ICA Museum Farmers Courtyards Kfar Tavor

Regba Aqueduct

Museum of Yarmukian Culture

Hecht Museum

First Aliyah Museum

Fisher House Kiryat Ata City Museum

Zinati House - Pekiin Jewish Heritage

Museum of The Underground Prisoners Akko

Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod

Naharayim at Gesher

The Train Museum (Haifa)

Beit Yemei Binyamina

Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery

Chana Senesh (Anna Szenes) House

Looking for something else to do? Check out these workshops, tours, and more!

Guide to Free activities on Pesach

I just HAD to take a break from Pesach cleaning to share this:

Here's the list of Bank Hapoalim's free attractions for Pesach 2024. I have linked to websites in English, whenever possible. I hope you find this list helpful, and that you get to have some super-frugal fun over Pesach!

*Please note that I put a lot of effort into this post, tracking down websites in English for your convenience. I know the Bank Hapoalim info and other info is available to the public in Hebrew, but this blog post has added benefits for the English-speaking community. Because it was so much work, I request that you link back to this post if you share this information. Thank you!*

Please leave a comment with your favorite place to visit!

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The following are free to the public (April 24-28) courtesy of Bank HaPoalim. Pre-registration is required, and will open on Sunday, April 21. Click here to register

North:

The Wilfrid Museum 

The National Maritime Museum

Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod

The Haifa Museum of Art

The Janco-Dada Museum 

The Ghetto Fighters' House Museum

Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art

The Golan Archaeological Museum

The Haifa City Museum

The Treasures in The Walls Museum

Yigal Allon Center

Hermann Struck Museum

Central Israel:

The Etzel 1948 Museum

The Yemenite Jewry Heritage Museum

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art

The Lechi Museum

Bialik House

The Etzel Museum

The Umm-El-Fahm Art Gallery

Beit HaGalgalim - House of Wheels

Planetanya

The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

Anu Museum of the Jewish People

The Rabin Center Israeli Museum

Design Museum Holon

The Nachum Gutman Museum of Art

The Israeli Cartoon Museum

Palmach House Museum

The Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art

The Rubin Museum

The Haganah Museum

4 Jerusalem: 

The Farm in the Valley

Israel Museum

Jerusalem Walls Tour

The Bible Lands Museum

The Hasmonean Heritage Museum (Modiin)

Museum of Islamic Art

South:

Ba'Ofen (Bike Rides)

Meshek 77 (Strawberry picking and more)

Kibbutz Chatzerim Visitors Center

The Tzon Barzel Heritage Museum

Lunada Children's Museum

Park Timna

Ben Gurion's Hut

Beta Israel Village

The Joe Alon Center for Bedouin Culture

The Legends of Yamit Visitors' Center

The Corinne Mamane Museum of Philistine Culture

The Salad Trail

Chavat HaDekalim Petting Zoo

Ron Art Judaica Studio

The Sderot Founders' Museum

The Negev Pioneers Site at Ruchama

The Sea Museum

Other venues that are also FREE:

The Gush Katif Museum, Nitzan - free to the public on April 24-25, 10am - 4pm. *8947

Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem has special programming for Pesach. Free for kids under 18, Miluimnikim and their families, and evacuees from the North and South. April 24-25, 10am - 6pm

Namal Tel Aviv has several free activities over Pesach. Different activities are available on different dates, check the schedule for more info

Tiyul around the Kinneret, Thursday, April 25. Registration is required. Click here to register for the short one at 9 am or the long on at 11am.

Ramat Hanadiv, Zichron Yaakov. April 24-25, from 10am - 2pm. Outdoor fun - Click here for details. The event is free but the parking lot is not.

First Aliyah Museum, Zichron Yaakov. April 24-25, 9am - 4pm, April 26, 9am - 2pm

Spring Festival at JNF (Keren Kayemet LaYisrael) parks. Specific locations - details and registration links HERE 

Mapah U'Matzah events at National Heritage Sites:
April 24: Golani Memorial Site, Kfar Sava Museum, Mikve Israel Visitors Center

April 25: ICA Museum Farmers Courtyards Kfar Tavor, The Emek Train Site in Kfar Yehoshua, the Khan Museum Hadera, 

April 24 & 25: Atlit Detention Camp, Herzl Center at Har Herzl, Gush Katif Museum, The Future of the Desert in Yerucham, My City Eilat Museum

Israel Parks and Nature: free guided tours at various sites. Register HERE 

Eco-Park Hadera, Spring Festival April 25, 10am - 4pm

More coming soon, as I find them!

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Have a great time!

Please share this with your friends, so everyone can plan a fun and frugal Pesach!

Free Museum admission (and more!) with a Disability Certificate

 PSA for anyone out there who carries a "Teudat Neche" (official disability certificate):

Friday, December 3rd you can get in FREE to dozens of venues.

Here's what's on the list (original Hebrew list is found here - it's a download):

Cinematek Haifa

Cinematek Tel Aviv

Cinematek Herzliya

Cinematek Jerusalem

Cinematek Holon

Cinematek Sderot

Israel Museum

Bible Lands Museum

The Khan Museum Kfar Sava

Ono Museum (registration required)

The Land of Israel Museum Ramat Aviv

The Nachum Gutman Museum of Art

Beit Ussishkin, the Galilee Nature Center

Museum of Islamic Art

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Petach Tikvah Museum of Art

The Khan Museum in Hadera

Rishon LeTzion Museum

Wilfred Museum

Steinhart Museum of Nature

Hecht Museum - Haifa University

Babylonian Heritage Museum in Holon

Ashdod Museum of Art

Museum of Philistine Culture

Bloomfeld Science Museum Jerusalem

Shterman House Museum

Yad Vashem

Holon Museum of Design (advance registration required)

Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics Holon

Haifa Museum of Art

Tikotin Museum

Haifa Maritime Museum

Hermann Struck Museum

Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum

Etzel Museum

Underground Prisoners Museum Akko

Underground Prisoners Museum Jerusalem

Lechi Museum

Battalions Museum Moshav Avichail

Hagana Museum

Beit Hashomer Kfar Giladi

The Etzel 1948 Museum

Palmach House Museum (advance registration required)

Netanya Museum

Sarona Visitors' Center

HaReut Museum, Metzudat Koach

Joe Alon Center for Bedouin Culture

Minkov Citrus Orchard Museum Rechovot

Circassian Heritage Center, Kfar Kama

The Raanana Historical Society Center

First Aliyah Museum, Zichron Yaakov

Ben Gurion's Hut, Sdeh Boker

The Valley Train Station, Kfar Yehoshua

The Mizgaga Museum, Nachsholim

Atlit Detention Camp

Etzel Museum at Shuni

Biriya Fortress

1948 Battle Reconstruction Site, Yad Mordechai

The Emek Museum, Kibbutz Yifat

Savta Tzila's House, Yavniel

Circassian Museum, Kfar Kama

Herzl Museum, Jerusalem

The Female Soldier's Memorial, Nitzanim

Mitzpe Gvulot

The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva

Museum of Islamic Culture, Be'er Sheva

Historic Nahalal Police Station

Museum of the History of Gedera and the Biluim

The Kurdish Experience, Yardena

Rosh Pinah Pioneer Reconstruction

Givati Museum

Chanita Wall and Tower Museum

Museatar – The Ben Shemen Youth Village

Chana Senesh House

National Maritime Museum, Haifa

Haifa City Museum

I apologize for any errors - I did my best to translate the original list, but as always, I recommend calling before you go to be sure the venue you chose is participating. 

Hope you found this helpful -- Happy Chanukah!

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International Museum Day 2019 - Free Museums on Lag Baomer!

Lag Ba'Omer, May 23, 2019, is International Museum Day in Israel, and many museums around Israel open to the public for free!


The museums on this list are usually quite pricey for a family to visit, so getting in for free is a great way to learn, experience, and see new things, but I will warn you now - get there early or risk having the doors closed due to overcrowding!

I have tried to list phone numbers and opening hours as accurately as possible. However, I cannot take responsibility for any errors, so please call the museums you plan to visit to verify this information before you go.

I have tried, wherever possible, to link to websites in English. There were some museums/historical sites that only had Hebrew websites, though. My apologies in advance.

The list below represents many hours of work translating and researching, and I request that if you want to share this information, you link to this blog post. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

Here's the list (the list in Hebrew is available here)

Please note: Generally, free admission will not apply to large groups.

North

The Open Museum in Tefen open 9am - 4pm 04-9109609

The Chaim Shturman House - at Kibbutz Ein Harud, open 9am - 3pm 04-6486337 | 04-6486328

Bar David Museum for Jewish Art and Judaica - Kibbutz Baram, 04-6988295 open 10am - 4pm

Ein-Dor Museum of Archaeology, Kibbutz Ein-Dor, open 10am -3pm 04-6770333

The National Maritime Museum, open 10am - 7pm 04-8536622

Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz HaZorea, 04-9899566 open 9am - 2pm 

Watchman's House Museum - Kfar Giladi 04-6941565 open 8am - 4pm

The Haifa Museum of Art 04-9115997 open 10am - 7pm - some exhibits close earlier

The Herman Struk Museum 04-6359962 open 10am - 9pm

The Haifa City Museum, 04-9115888 open 10am - 7pm

The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art,  04-8383554 open 10am - 7pm

Mane Katz Museum, Haifa 04-9119372 open 10am - 7pm

The National Maritime Museum, Haifa, 04-8536622, open 10am - 7pm

The Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum in Haifa - 04-8536249, open 10am - 4pm

MadaTech, open 10am -5pm, 04-8614444



Center

HaGedudim Museum, Moshav Avichail 09-8822212 open 8:30am - 4pm

The Khan Museum, Hadera, 04-6322330 open 10 am - 2 pm

Museum of Archaeology and Glass, Kibbutz Nachsholim, 04-6390950, open 9am - 2pm

The Kfar Saba Museum, 09-7640868 open 9 am - 7pm

Ramat Hasharon Geological Museum , open 10 am - 1 pm

Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv 03-6415244 open 10am - 8pm

Rishon L'Tzion Museum,  03-9598862, 03-9598890 open 9am - 2pm

Museum and Archives of the History of Holon 03-5050425 open 10am - 1pm
The Hosmasa Museum - Holon - 03-5050425 open 10am - 1pm

Ilana Goor Museum, 03-683-7676, ext. 20, 10am - 4pm

The Petach Tikvah Museum of Art 03-9286300 open 4pm - 8pm

Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 03-5161970 open 10am - 4pm

Yemenite Heritage Center, Rehovot, 073-3946150 open 9 am - 5 pm

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 03-6077020 open 10am - 9pm pre-registration required at: https://tickets.tamuseum.org.il/calendar/2019-05-23

Agam Museum, Rishon, 03-555-5900 open 10 am - 7 pm

The Hagana Museum - 03-560-8624 open 8am - 4pm

Palmach Museum, 03-5459800 By reservation only

Etzel Museum, Tel Aviv 03-5284001 open 8am - 4pm

The Etzel 1948 Museum, Tel Aviv 03-5177180 , 03-5172044 open 8am - 4:30pm

Toldot Tzahal Museum, Tel Aviv 03-5172913 open 8am - 4pm 

The Lechi Museum 03-6820288 open 8am - 4pm

The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History,  073-3802000 open 10am - 6pm

Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv, 037457808, 10am - 4pm

Jerusalem

Museum of Italian Jewish Art, 02-6241610, noon - 7pm

Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem 02-6544888 open 10am - 6pm

The Old Yishuv Court Museum, 02-6276319, 052-4002478 open 10am - 5pm

Museum on the Seam, 02-6281278 open 10am - 5 pm

The Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem 02-5611066 open 9:30am - 5:30pm

The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem 02-5661291/2 open 10am - 7pm

The Underground Prisoners Museum in Jerusalem 02-6233166 ' open 9am - 5pm

Tower of David Museum 02-6265333 open 9am - 4pm 11am & 1:30pm guided tours in English  (2 different topics)

The Israel Museum 02-6708811 open 10am - 5pm


South 

The Museum of Philistine Culture 08-6224799 open 9am - 4pm

Yad Mordechai, 08-6720559  open 9am - 5 pm 

The Negev Museum of Art, Beer Sheva 08-6993531 open 10am - 4pm

The Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Culture 08-6993535 open 10am - 4pm



Let me know where you decide to go! I'd love to hear which museum you chose, and what you thought of it!

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International Museum Day - Free Museums on Lag Baomer!

Lag Ba'Omer, May 3, 2018, is International Museum Day in Israel, and many museums around Israel open to the public for free!


The museums on this list are usually quite pricey for a family to visit, so getting in for free is a great way to learn, experience, and see new things, but I will warn you now - get there early or risk having the doors closed due to overcrowding!

I have tried to list phone numbers and opening hours as accurately as possible. However, I cannot take responsibility for any errors, so please call the museums you plan to visit to verify this information before you go.

I have tried, wherever possible, to link to websites in English. There were some museums/historical sites that only had Hebrew websites, though. My apologies in advance.

The list below represents many hours of work translating and researching, and I request that if you want to share this information, you link to this blog post. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

Here's the list (the list in Hebrew is available here)

Please note: Generally, free admission will not apply to large groups.

North

Ein-Dor Museum of Archaeology, Kibbutz Ein-Dor, open 10am -3pm 04-6770333

The National Maritime Museum, open 10am - 7pm 04-8536622

The Open Museum in Tefen open 9am - 4pm 04-9109609

MadaTech, open 10am -5pm, 04-8614444

The Underground Prisoners' Museum, Acco, open 8:30am - 4:30pm 04-6941565

Watchman's House Museum - Kfar Giladi 04-6941565 open 8am - 4pm

The Chaim Shturman House - at Kibbutz Ein Harud.open 9am - 3pm 04-6486337 | 04-6486328

Bar David Museum for Jewish Art and Judaica - Kibbutz Baram, 04-6988295 open 10am - 4pm

The Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum in Haifa - 04-8536249, open 10am - 4pm

The Khan Museum, Hadera, 04-6322330, open 10am - 3pm

The Hecht Museum, University of Haifa, 04-8240308 open 10am - 4pm

The Haifa City Museum, 04-9115888 open 10am - 7pm

The Museum of the First Aliyah in Zichron, 04-6294777 open 9am - 4pm

The Herman Struk Museum 04-6359962 open 10am - 9pm

Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz HaZorea, 04-9899566 open 9am - 2pm

The Haifa Museum of Art 04-9115997 open 10am - 7pm

The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art,  04-8383554 open 10am - 7pm

The Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod 04-9842350 open 10am - 3pm

Mane Katz Museum, Haifa 04-9119372 open 10am - 7pm

Center

Krinitzi House, Ramat Gan, 03-6739050, 9am - 1pm

Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv, 037457808, 10am - 7pm

Clore Garden of Science, Rechovot 08-9378300 open 10am - 4pm

The Israeli Cartoon Museum, Holon 03-6521849 open 10am - 4pm (note: no strollers allowed)

Museum and Archives of the History of Holon 03-5050425 open 10am - 1pm

Agam Museum, Rishon, 03-555-5900 (times not published)

Ilana Goor Museum, 03-683-7676, ext. 20, 10am - 4pm

Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv 03-6415244 open 10am - 8pm

HaGedudim Museum, Moshav Avichail 09-8822212 open 8:30am - 4pm

The Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv 03-5255961 open 10am - 3pm

Toldot Tzahal Museum, Tel Aviv 03-5172913 open 8am - 4pm (entrance closes at 3:30pm)

Man and the Living World Museum, Ramat Gan 03-6315010 open 9am - 4pm. Reservations required.

Museum of Human Sciences and the Environment, Petach Tikvah, 03-9286900/1, open 9am - 2pm

Etzel Museum, Tel Aviv 03-5284001 open 8am - 4pm

The Etzel 1948 Museum, Tel Aviv 03-5177180 , 03-5172044 open 8am - 4:30pm

The Hagana Museum - 03-560-8624 open 8am - 4pm

Palmach Museum, 03-5459800 By reservation only

Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 09-9551011, 4-8pm

The Hosmasa Museum - Holon - 03-5050425 open 9am - 1pm

Kfar Saba Archaeology Museum, Kfar Saba 09-7640867/8 open 10am - noon

The Lechi Museum 03-6820288 open 8:30am - 4pm

The Netanya City Historical Museum, 09-8840020 open 10am - 2pm

Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies, Kibbutz Tel Yitzchak 09-7497200 open 9am - 3pm

Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 03-5161970 open 10am - 4pm

The Petach Tikvah Museum of Art 03-9286300 open 4pm - 8pm

Rishon L'Tzion Museum,  03-9598862, 03-9598890 open 9am - 2pm

The Ramla Museum, Ramla 08-9292650 open 9am - 4pm

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 03-6077020 open 10am - 9pm

Jerusalem

The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem 02-5661291/2 open 10am - 7pm

The Underground Prisoners Museum in Jerusalem 02-6233166 ' open 9am - 5pm

The Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem 02-5611066 open 9:30am - 5:30pm

Hechal Shlomo, Jerusalem 02-5889010 open 10am - 4pm

Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem 02-6544888 open 10am - 6pm

The Old Yishuv Court Museum, 02-6276319, 052-4002478 open 10am - 5pm

Museum of Italian Jewish Art, 02-6241610, noon - 7pm

The Israel Museum 02-6708811 open 10am - 5pm (tours in English 11:00am, 12:30pm, 3:00pm) Children are FREE. Adults 20 shekels

Tower of David Museum 02-6265333 open 9am - 4pm

South

Ashdod Art Museum, 08-8545180, 08-9568285, open 9am - 4pm

The Museum of Philistine Culture 08-6224799 open 9am - 4pm

The Negev Museum of Art, Beer Sheva 08-6993531 open 10am - 4pm

The Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Culture 08-6993535 open 10am - 4pm


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