On Knesset Election Day, Tuesday, October 27, 2026, Haifa Museums will be open to the public and offer a variety of activities for the whole family: guided tours of exhibitions, meetings with a curator, creative spaces and play areas for children. Among other things, visitors will be able to learn about the story of the color purple at Tel Shikmona, take a fresh look at the world of photography, and discover Israeli and Japanese art exhibitions.
Election Day with art, history and activities for children
On Knesset Election Day, which will take place on October 27, 2026, Haifa Museums will open their doors to the general public at the initiative and under the guidance of Haifa Museums CEO Yotam Yakir. During the day, guided tours for families and the general public will be held at the museums of the various exhibitions, and the activity and creative spaces will be open to visitors throughout the hours of operation, with the aim of allowing the public to combine exercising the right to vote with an accessible cultural experience.
At the National Maritime Museum: Following the Color of Crimson at Tel Shikmona
The National Maritime Museum will be offering guided tours for the whole family in the new exhibition cluster. "The color: crimson", at 11:00, 12:00 and 13:00. The exhibitions focus on the archaeological site of Tel Shikmona, located on the Haifa coast, and on the production of scarlet dye from sea snails in ancient times.
In the new courtyard of the museum, "Games at the Port"Children will be able to embark on a journey to learn about working in the port through play, experimentation, and imagination. The space offers a maritime museum experience that combines learning and experiential activity.
At the Haifa City Museum: What is the connection between photography and truth?
At the Haifa City Museum, a tour with museum curator Yifat Ashkenazi will be held at 11:00 AM in the new exhibition cluster. "Appearance – On Photography and Truth".
The training will address the power and limitations of photography, its place in a changing world, and the questions raised by the age of artificial intelligence regarding the documentation of reality. The role of photography collections in museums will also be discussed, as memory, testimony, and a tool for reexamining the past and present.
Alongside the exhibition, children will have access to an interactive room with games and activities related to the world of photography.
At the Haifa Museum of Art: Lines, Threads and Co-creation
The Haifa Museum of Art will host guided tours for the general public at 11:00 and 12:30. The exhibition will be the centerpiece of the visit. "Crossing the lines – from line to line", which spans the second floor of the museum. The exhibition connects works through motifs of lines, traces, and threads, creating a web of meanings and connections between the works.
The tours will also include a visit to the exhibitions. "Mana Katz: Music After the War", "Lian Sharkia: Tita" and-"Etti Levi: Up".
In the gallery for the whole family, visitors will be able to participate in creative activities: add strips of fabric to the net hanging in space and together create a large landscape picture, or use colorful rubber bands stretched between nail points to assemble pictures.
The greenhouse building next to the museum will also be open. "Wonder Room" – An activity space for little ones, with a variety of creative and play stations.
At the Tikotin Museum: Discovering the Beauty in the Shadows
The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art will be offering guided tours of the exhibition. "In Praise of Shadows", at 11:00 and 12:30.
Inspired by an essay by Japanese author Junichiro Tanizaki, the exhibition invites visitors to look at what remains hidden. In a world where everything is illuminated, visible, and immediately available, shadow is presented not as a mere absence of light, but as a space of memory, imagination, and mystery. The exhibition offers a look at the beauty of partial revelation and the possibility of finding meaning even in that which is not fully revealed.
At the Hermann Struck Museum: Views from here, there, and nowhere
The Hermann Struck Museum is displaying the exhibition "Here, there and nowhere", dedicated to representations of landscapes in print works in various techniques, selected from the collections of Haifa museums.
The exhibition's starting point is the works of Hermann Struck, one of the fathers of printmaking in Israel. His landscapes, which document scenes from the Land of Israel and his travels around the world, are presented in dialogue with works by local Jewish and Arab artists from different periods, who worked in the medium of printmaking and expanded its boundaries.
Admission to the Hermann Struck Museum is free.
More information and tickets
The activities will take place on Tuesday, October 27, 2026., during Knesset Election Day. Additional details about the museums, exhibitions, tours and ticket purchases can be found on the website Haifa museums.
Great exhibitions. Go vote and then go to the museums.
There is something to do on Election Day 🙂