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Clandestine Immigration and Navy Museum

The Israeli National Maritime Museum is a maritime and archaeological museum located in Haifa, Israel. The museum was founded in 1953, based on the private collection of its founder and first director, Eli Ben-Aryeh. In 1972, the museum moved to its current location near the north beach of Mount Carmel, between the districts Stella Maris and Bat Galim. Nearby is the Israeli Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum and the Cave of Elijah.

Workshops are offered by the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, affiliated with the University of Haifa. The workshop offers professional diving and surveying services for field research conducted at the institute.

Archaeological finds are permanently exhibited in the museum and include bronze ram of a warship of the 2nd century BC.