Bar David Museum – Jewish Art

The Bar David Museum is located in Kibbutz Baram in northern Israel. The Museum of Jewish Art, opened in 1982, is named after its creators Moshe and Tova Bar-David, with whose money it was opened. Moshe Bar-David, a collector of Judaic and Jewish art, donated to the museum all the works in his possession, the number of which exceeds several thousand. The museum occupies three floors, it has a permanent exhibition, as well as exhibitions of paintings, photographs, statues, extensive collections.

The museum collection includes works by famous Jewish artists, including Mordechai Ardon, Menachem Shemi, Moshe Bernstein, Moshe Rosentalis, Boris Schatz, Aryeh Eloil, Pinchas Litvinovski and others. The jewel of the museum’s collection is a huge canvas “Allegory”, painted on three wooden boards by the artist Yankel Adler.

The museum also presents various items of Judaica: religious paraphernalia of all Jewish communities, cabinets for Torah scrolls, myrtle censers, various attributes for the celebration of Passover, silver cups, candlesticks and so on.

In the archaeological hall of the museum you can see exhibits found during excavations in this region, as well as objects of jewelry, statuettes, artifacts made of ceramics and glass.