Museum of the Underground Prisoners
מוזיאון אסירי המחתרות
Museum · The British Mandate's central prison · The Jewish underground movements · The Russian Compound
1 Mish'ol HaGvura, Russian Compound, Jerusalem
Is this your business?Claim it freeThe British Mandate's central prison in the Russian Compound, restored by the Ministry of Defense as a museum of the Jewish underground prisoners held there
The museum is in the Russian Compound, which the Russians built by the Old City in the 1860s to house Christian pilgrims; the building was its women's hostel. Under British rule, from 1917 to 1948, the compound became a British government and security centre and the building its central prison, and the compound was taken on 14 May 1948. From 1965 the association of former Hagana, Irgun and Lehi prisoners ran a Hall of Heroism in the building, and in 1991 it passed to the Ministry of Defense's museums unit, which restored the prison as a heritage site that, its pages say, tells its story through the stories of the prisoners. Visitors walk the main corridors, the display rooms and the courtyards, and the route includes the solitary cells and the gallows room; a computer station in the reception room enlarges pictures of the route and the exhibits, and the main presentation's films are signed for deaf visitors.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Closed Friday and Saturday
- On offer
- The British Mandate's central prison, the jewish underground movements, the russian compound
- Wheelchair
- Wheelchair access to the display rooms along the main corridors and to the courtyards, but not to the solitary cells or the gallows room; the toilets are accessible but their stalls are not adapted for wheelchairs; disabled parking by arrangement with the staff; wheelchairs and hearing devices at the box office; a computer station that enlarges pictures for visitors with low vision.
- Own website
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For illustration: the area around Museum of the Underground Prisoners, not the business itself.
Opening hours
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| Sunday to Thursday | 09:00-17:00 |
|---|---|
| Friday and Saturday | Closed |
Candle lighting 5:38 PMShabbat ends 6:34 PM
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Fridays and other times by arrangement, for groups of more than 25.
Location
1 Mish'ol HaGvura, Russian Compound, Jerusalem
- Train: Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon2.1 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 49 mlines 1, 17, 18, 30א, 34, 51, 66, 66א and 13 more
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-14.
Questions
About Museum of the Underground Prisoners
- 2.1 km from Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon stationBus stops within 271 m: שבטי ישראל/הלני המלכה, ככר ספרא/שבטי ישראל, שבטי ישראל/הנביאים, הנביאים/שבטי ישראל, הנביאים/הע״ח.
Museum of the Underground Prisoners is a museum at 1 Mish'ol HaGvura, Russian Compound in Jerusalem, in the Jerusalem District.
Hours, as listed on mod.gov.il on 14 October 2026: Sunday to Thursday 09:00 to 17:00, Friday and Saturday closed.
The nearest railway station is Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon, 2.1 km away. The nearest bus stops are שבטי ישראל/הלני המלכה (49 m), ככר ספרא/שבטי ישראל (93 m), שבטי ישראל/הנביאים (193 m).
We found no published accessibility statement, so call ahead if step-free access matters to you.
Jerusalem does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
The public registers a directory should check and usually does not. A blank is reported as a blank.
- Accessibility statement
- None found on its site or its listings museums.mod.gov.il2026-10-14
- Companies Registrar
- Its pages say it is run by the Ministry of Defense's Heritage and Museums Unit. museums.mod.gov.il2026-10-14
- Municipal business licence
- No published register of licensed businesses was found for Jerusalem: none of the 114 datasets on the city's open-data portal is such a register, and data.gov.il has none for the city. jerusalem.muni.il2026-10-01
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
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| Name | מוזיאון אסירי המחתרות / Museum of the Underground Prisoners | museums.mod.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 1 Mish'ol HaGvura, Russian Compound | mod.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.78191, 35.22407 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 02-623-3166 | mod.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Website | museums.mod.gov.il | museums.mod.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from museums.mod.gov.il | museums.mod.gov.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Opening hours | Sunday to Thursday 09:00 to 17:00, Friday and Saturday closed | mod.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| What it is like | Written from museums.mod.gov.il | museums.mod.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Wheelchair access to the display rooms along the main corridors and to the courtyards, but not to the solitary cells or the gallows room; the toilets are accessible but their stalls are not adapted for wheelchairs; disabled parking by arrangement with the staff; wheelchairs and hearing devices at the box office; a computer station that enlarges pictures for visitors with low vision. | museums.mod.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon 2.1 km; שבטי ישראל/הלני המלכה 49 m; ככר ספרא/שבטי ישראל 93 m; ככר ספרא/שבטי ישראל 158 m; שבטי ישראל/הנביאים 193 m; הנביאים/שבטי ישראל 238 m; הנביאים/הע״ח 271 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its pages say it is run by the Ministry of Defense's Heritage and Museums Unit. | museums.mod.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | No published register of licensed businesses was found for Jerusalem: none of the 114 datasets on the city's open-data portal is such a register, and data.gov.il has none for the city. | jerusalem.muni.il | Fact, shown | |
| Photographs | 2 licensed | museums.mod.gov.il | Linked, not copied |
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