Bat Yam Museum Building
The round modernist building that houses the museum was built in 1961 by architect Yitzhak Perlstein. The structure is characterized by a Brutalist Style – an architectural ethic that sought to reveal the building’s truth and is known for its use of bare concrete construction. Our museum is a part of the neighborhood in the most fundamental sense – Perlstein is also the architect who planned Ramat Yosef’s neighborhood.
The open layout of the museum holds a 1,000 sqm display pavilion. A human-scale museum, its internal space, which has no dividing walls, allows the exhibiting artist exceptional flexibility, without any predetermined constraints.
The museum building is located at the heart of a park planned by Israel Prize winners, the landscape architects Lippa Yahalom and Dan Tzur.
The Bat Yam Contemporary Museum is home to two rare and valuable collections: the biggest collection in the world of the works of Issachar Ber Rybak and the collection of works of art, Judaica, and the books of Sholem Asch
