About the Museum

The museum is located in the studio where the late architect Prof. Munio Gitai Weinraub worked.

The initiative to establish an architecture museum in Haifa belongs to director Amos Gitai, who wanted to turn the studio where his father worked into a museum in his memory. The museum was established in collaboration with the Haifa Municipality and the Haifa Museums Company.

Architect Carmit Hernik Saar is responsible for adapting the building to its purpose as a museum, together with the “Kowalski Efrat” office of architects Zvi Efrat and Meira Kowalski.

The exhibition ‘The Architecture of Memory’ was the opening exhibition of the museum. The exhibition curated by Amos Gitai was a kind of public dialogue between the father architect and his son,
a film director who shared an interpretation with the viewer, deciphering a riddle. The exhibition was presented in the architectural space that was the place of creation of Munio his father.

It is a simple space left in its nakedness, in its minimalist aesthetic. Gitai Jr. created an exhibition or perhaps an installation that would incorporate this almost ceremonial feeling. Every year, the museum hosts rotating exhibitions on Israeli and international architecture, and various events take place there: meetings with architects and artists whose field of work is tangent to architecture. The exhibitions in the museum are partly thematic and partly monographic. The intention is to provoke discussion and raise questions The intention is to provoke discussion and raise questions The intention is to provoke discussion and raise questions The intention is to provoke discussion and raise questions The intention is to provoke discussion and raise questions concerning architecture and are at the center of public interest in Israel.