Bat Yam Museum Building
Bat Yam Museum of Art presents cutting-edge contemporary art that is relevant to the people who live here.
Our intimate museum space holds ambitious solo exhibitions, where the entire museum is taken over by the creative vision of one artist. Our exhibitions create new, complete, and total worlds while exploring the tension between artists as individuals and the society and place in which they operate. We believe that contemporary art can be meaningful to the lives of the cities and communities in which it is created. With this in mind, we are very involved in the city’s public sphere, in the art education of Bat Yam’s children, and creative activities for its adult residents.
Bat Yam Museum of Art was established in 1961 with a bridge connecting it to an operational water tower, with the belief that art and culture are fundamental and essential infrastructures, just as necessary as running drinking water. We still believe that to this day.
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
