Mishkan Museum of Art (Mishkan LeOmanut, he, המשכן לאמנות על שם חיים אתר, Haim Atar Art House) is an Israeli art museum located on the grounds of Kibbutz Ein Harod Meuhad.

History

Mishkan LeOmanut was the first rural museum in Israel and the first museum run by a kibbutz. One of the kibbutz members, painter , organized an "art corner" in his studio, a small wooden hut, in 1937. It developed into a museum specializing in the work of

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artists from the Diaspora and Jewish

folk art Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some kind, rather than being exclusively decorative. The makers of folk art are typically tr ...

."Mishkan LeOmanut"
Museum of Art, Ein Harod Today it is one of Israel's major art institutions. An imposing museum building, designed by an architect , was inaugurated in 1948. Later the building became a source of inspiration for some of the 20th century's leading architects, among them

Louis Kahn Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. Whi ...

and

Renzo Piano Renzo Piano (; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City ( ...

.Mishkan Le’Omanut and the Ideal of the 20th-Century Museum
/ref> During construction of the museum, the 1952 split of

Ein Harod Ein Harod ( he, עֵין חֲרוֹד) was a kibbutz in northern Israel near Mount Gilboa. Founded in 1921, it became the center of Mandatory Palestine's kibbutz movement, hosting the headquarters of the largest kibbutz organisation, HaKibbutz HaM ...

into Ein Harod (Ihud) and Ein Harod (Meuhad) happened, but the museum was preserved as the joint institution for the split kibbutzim. The museum was declared as a "heritage site" by the

Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel ( he, המועצה לשימור אתרי מורשת בישראל), also Society for the Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites (SPIHS),

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Ein Harod museumThe Man with the Pumpkin Head, Exhibition at the Ein Harod Museum
Orna Bromberg, Moshe Mirski , Keren Russo , May 2009 {{Authority control 1937 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Museums established in 1937 Art museums and galleries in Israel Folk art museums and galleries

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