Temporary Art Exhibitions
Current Exhibitions
Winners of the Young Artists’ Competition – 2012
Winners of the Young Artists’ Competition – 2012

The exhibition presents a selected works of the winners from the young artists' competition (painting, drawing, sculpture and photography). This completion was founded on 1992 by the late Dr. Hecht, to encourage young beginning artists. Participating in the completion are high school students from north Israel, IDF soldiers, and fine art students of the Haifa University. Scholarships are awarded to the winners by the Hecht Foundation.

Details Exhibitions
Winners of the Young Artists’ Competition – 2012
Winners of the Young Artists’ Competition – 2012
Past Exhibitions
Portraits as Testimony

In 1978 the noted late Swiss collector, Dr. Oscar Ghez, presented the University of Haifa with 137 works of art by 18 artists who perished in the Holocaust.
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"The Landscape Chose Me" - Anna Ticho, Portrait and Landscapes

Anna Ticho was a multifaceted woman. She was not a native of this land, but she was deeply rooted in it to her last day, and her entire oeuvre is marked by the Eretz-Israeli nature in general, and the landscapes of the Judean Mountains and Jerusalem in particular, which she drew over and over again in the course of sixty years.
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Shoshana Heimann – Retrospective


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Winners of the Young Artists’ Competition – 2008

The exhibition presents a selected works of the winners from the young artists' competition (painting, drawing, sculpture and photography). This completion was founded on 1992 by the late Dr. Hecht, to encourage young beginning artists. Participating in the completion are high school students from north Israel, IDF soldiers, and fine art students of the Haifa University. Scholarships are awarded to the winners by the Hecht Foundation.
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Avner Katz | Pinecones


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"Image of His Soul"
Max Liebermann – Works on Paper

The exhibition "'Image of His Soul,' Max Liebermann – Works on Paper," displays works by one of the most important Jewish artists – one who was recognized and cherished in cultural and artistic circles in Germany and abroad until the Nazi regime ostracized him.
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Else Lasker-Schüler - A Poet Who Paints

The exhibition curated by Irit Salmon, presents Lasker-Schüler's poems alongside drawings she created as illustrations for her literary works in prose, poetry, and drama.
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Leopold Krakauer - Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit


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Jozef Israels - A Heart's Desire

The title of the present exhibition dedicated to Jozef Israels’s paintings, “Jozef Israels: A Heart’s Desire,” takes us some dozen years back in time, to an event I witnessed, when the late Dr. Reuben Hecht approached the Museum’s Art Curator at the time, asking him to organize an exhibition dedicated to Jozef Israels.
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Alexander Bogen - Drawings for Poems in Yiddish

This exhibition focuses on Alexander Bogen’s work in Israel, which, fifty years after the events, is ichonographically connected to the work done during the Holocaust period.
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Nahum Gutman - Many Seas

The exhibition, featuring sea paintings by Nahum Gutman (1898-1980), provides a glance into a significant chapter of the artist’s oeuvre.
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Winners of the Young Artists’ Competition

This exhibition presents a selection of works by award recipients who participated in the Young Artists' Competition in Plastic Arts, and includes paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures.
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Children of Israel Draw the National Anthem, "Hatikva,"
in Line and Color

The celebration of the 50th Birthday of the State of Israel and the 100th Anniversary of the First Zionist Congress were yearlong events during which special happenings, conferences, and commemorations took place throughout the country.
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Oscar Collection - Jewish Artists who Perished in the Holocaust

In 1978 the noted late Swiss collector, Dr. Oscar Ghez, presented the University of Haifa with 137 works of art by 18 artists who perished in the Holocaust.
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