List of museums in Palestine
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There are around thirty museums in Palestine. In 2022, there were 27 in the West Bank and five in the Gaza Strip.[1]
Museums
| Name | Image | Location | Date opened | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Badd Museum for Olive Oil Production | Bethlehem, near the Church of the Nativity[2] 31°42′21.32″N 35°12′12.84″E | Late 18th century | Ethnography and archaeology museum | ||
| Baituna al-Talhami Museum |  |
Bethlehem, on Star Street[3] | 1979 | Folk museum | |
| Palestine Museum of Natural History | Bethlehem | 2017 | Natural history museum | Mazin Qumsiyeh and Jessie Chang began developing the museum in 2014 and it was inaugurated in 2017. The museum works with communities facing poverty and records environmental destruction.[4] | |
| Riwaya Museum - Bethlehem Peace Center | Manger Square, Bethlehem | [5] | |||
| Murad Castle Museum for Palestinian Heritage | Al-Khader | [6][7] | |||
| The Palestinian Museum |  |
Birzeit | 2016 | Cultural heritage museum | The museum was opened in 2016 and is privately funded.[8][9] Its permanent collections include artworks, books and posters, and ethnographic materials such as clothing.[10] Since 2018, the museum has run a digitisation programme, dealing with items for small institutions and private individuals.[11] It houses the first textile conservation lab in Palestine, which was established in 2022.[12][13] |
| Birzeit University Museum | Birzeit | [14] | |||
| Qasr al-Basha (Pasha's Palace Museum) |  |
Old City of Gaza | 20th century | Archaeology museum | The museum is housed in a historic combining Mamluk and Ottoman architecture. The building was converted into a museum with funding from the United Nations Development Programme and used by the Department of Antiquities to displays artefacts.[15] The museum housed a collection of 17,000 artefacts and was hit by an Israeli airstrike and bulldozed during the Gaza war.[16] |
| Al Mat'haf | Gaza City | Archaeology museum | |||
| Al Qarara Cultural Museum | Al-Qarara, Gaza Strip | [17] | |||
| Yasser Arafat Foundation – Gaza Office | |||||
| Hebron University Museum |  |
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| Dura Museum |  |
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| Old Hebron Museum | [18][19] | ||||
| Hisham's Palace Museum |  |
Jericho | 20th century | Archaeology museum | The museum was renovated in 2000 and displays artefacts discovered at the palace.[20] |
| Russian Museum | Jericho | [21] | |||
| Islamic Museum |  |
East Jerusalem | |||
| Abu Jihad Center and Museum for Captives, Al-Quds University | [22] | ||||
| Al-Quds University Science Museum | [23] | ||||
| Meet Math - Mathematics Museum | Abu Dis | [24] | |||
| Palestine Archeological Museum | .jpg) |
East Jerusalem | 1921 | Archaeology museum | Established in 1901 during Ottoman rule the Imperial Museum. In 1921, during the British Mandate for Palestine, a new museum was opened and the collections relocated. It also housed the Department of Antiquities during the period of the British Mandate. With periods administered by an international board and then Jordan, since 1967 the museum has been run by Israel and is used by the Israel Antiquities Authority. It displays artefacts excavated in Palestine. Following Israel's occupation the Dead Sea Scrolls were removed.[25] |
| Palestinian Heritage Museum | East Jerusalem | Heritage museum | Before the museum's renovation in 2023 it received around 6,500 visitors per year.[26][27] | ||
| Armenian Museum | Armenian Quarter, East Jerusalem | [28] | |||
| Terra Sancta Museum | Christian Quarter, East Jerusalem | [29] | |||
| Samaritans Museum, Mount Gerizim | |||||
| An-Najah National University's Museum of Palestinian Popular Heritage | [30] | ||||
| Education Museum inside Qalqilya Zoo | Qalqilya | [31] | |||
| Mahmoud Darwish Museum |  |
Ramallah | [32] | ||
| Arafat Museum | [33] | ||||
| Khan Al-Bireh | [34] | ||||
| Tulkarm Museum | Archaeology and cultural heritage museum | ||||
| Al-Mentar / Al-Mintar Tulkarm Museum | [35][36] | ||||
| Tulkarm Archaeological Museum | [37] |
