Editing Haifa (section)

===Museums===
[[File:P1190557 - בית הטכניון ההיסטורי - החצר.JPG|thumb|upright|National Museum of Science, Haifa]]
Haifa has over a dozen museums.<ref name=leisure/><ref name=museums>{{cite web |url=http://www.get2israel.com/Destinations/haifa.aspx |title=Haifa Museums |publisher=Get2Israel.com |access-date=18 February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229091637/http://www.get2israel.com/Destinations/haifa.aspx |archive-date=29 February 2008}}</ref> The most popular museum is the Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space, which recorded almost 150,000&nbsp;visitors in 2004. The museum is located in the historic Technion building in the Hadar neighborhood. The [[Haifa Museum|Haifa Museum of Art]] houses a collection of modern and classical art, as well as displays on the history of Haifa. The [[Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art]] is the only museum in the Middle East dedicated solely to [[Japanese art]]. Other museums in Haifa include the Museum of Prehistory, the National Maritime Museum and [[Haifa City Museum]], the Hecht Museum,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mushecht.haifa.ac.il/Default_eng.aspx |title=Hecht Museum homepage |access-date=13 October 2014 |publisher=Hecht Museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011210953/http://mushecht.haifa.ac.il/Default_eng.aspx |archive-date=11 October 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> the Dagon Archaeological Museum of Grain Handling,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nahariya.info/blog/dagan-grain-silo-and-museum-haifa |title=Dagan Grain Silo and Museum, Haifa |access-date=13 October 2014 |publisher=Nahariya.info – Nahariya and the Western Galilee |archive-date=19 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019110720/http://www.nahariya.info/blog/dagan-grain-silo-and-museum-haifa |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.culture.org.il/directory/viewItem.asp?cat=6&subcat=6.3&idNum=8175 |title=Dagon Collection – Archaeological Museum of Grain Handling in Israel |access-date=13 October 2014 |publisher=Israel Arts Directorye |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812025851/http://www.culture.org.il/directory/viewItem.asp?cat=6&subcat=6.3&idNum=8175 |archive-date=12 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Israel Railway Museum|Railway Museum]], the [[Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum]], the Israeli [[Petroleum industry|Oil Industry]] Museum, and Chagall Artists' House.<ref name=leisure/> As part of his campaign to bring culture to Haifa, Mayor Abba Hushi provided the artist [[Mane-Katz]] with a building on Mount Carmel to house his collection of Judaica, which is now a museum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tour-haifa.co.il/eng/modules/article/view.article.php/c21/123 |title=The Mane Katz Museum |access-date=25 January 2008 |publisher=Tour-Haifa.co.il |archive-date=13 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313222222/http://www.tour-haifa.co.il/eng/modules/article/view.article.php/c21/123 |url-status=live}}</ref> The former home and studio of artist [[Hermann Struck]] is now the Hermann Struck Museum.<ref name=Struck>{{cite news |last1=Kamin |first1=Debra |title=Home of Haifa artist Hermann Struck is reborn as museum |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/home-of-haifa-artist-hermann-struck-is-reborn-as-museum/ |access-date=9 January 2019 |work=The Times of Israel |date=3 October 2013 |archive-date=16 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116134941/https://www.timesofisrael.com/home-of-haifa-artist-hermann-struck-is-reborn-as-museum/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The Haifa Educational Zoo at Gan HaEm park houses a small animal collection including Syrian brown bears, now extinct from Israel. Wןthin the zoo is the Pinhas House biology institute. In the close vicinity of Haifa, on the Carmel, the Northern "Hai-Bar" ("wild life") operated by Israel's Parks and Reserves Authority for the purpose of breeding and reintroduction of species now extinct from Israel, such as Persian Fallow Deer.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}