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HaEmek Museum

מוזיאון העמק

Museum · Pioneer settlement in the Jezreel Valley · Farm tools · The tractor yard · The honey pavilion · 15-40 ₪

A museum of pioneer settlement in the Jezreel Valley at Kibbutz Yifat, opened in 1972 around a kibbutz member's collection of farm tools, with a settlement yard, tractors and a honey pavilion

HaEmek Museum grew from the collection of Oded Artzi, its founder, a member of Kibbutz Yifat who began gathering old farm tools and objects in 1966; an exhibition of farm tools for 40 years of settlement in the western valley became the base of the museum, which opened to the public in 1972, and he ran it until his death in 1986. It collects, keeps and shows the material culture and the ideas of the Zionist pioneers of the early twentieth century and tells the story of settlement in the Jezreel Valley from the 1920s to the 1950s. In its settlement yard, pavilions recreate kibbutz life in those years, with the dining hall, the bachelors' hut, the children's house and classroom, the clothing store, the clinic and crafts such as the smithy and the shoemaker's, beside the draining of the swamps and the building of roads, thousands of objects the valley's pioneers used and even a pioneers' tent. Children can climb real tractors, guess what each farm tool was for and follow honey from the flower to the jar, and the yard needs no booking: visitors come and buy a ticket on the spot.

14 facts checked 2026-10-15

What happens here

Every other Saturday: Family Saturday
A family Saturday every two weeks, on the dates the museum announces.

As published on the museum's website, read 2026-10-15.

At a glance

Shabbat: Closed Friday and Saturday
On offer: Pioneer settlement in the Jezreel Valley, farm tools, the tractor yard, the honey pavilion
Prices: 15-40 ₪
Wheelchair: Disabled parking at the main entrance and at the museum's upper level; a step-free, wheelchair-suited path from the main entrance through the settlement yard to the cafeteria and the John Deere yard, and another up to the upper level with the gallery, the honey pavilion and the events area; accessible paths to the garden and to the restored synagogue; accessible toilets at the main entrance and on the upper level; accessible signs and explanatory texts; and tours adapted for blind and low-vision visitors.
Parking: Accessible parking listed

Own website
Facebook page
Active on Instagram
Good for families

Prices

Visitor from age 2, Sunday to Thursday30 ₪
Visitor from age 2, Saturday35 ₪
Senior citizen, student, security forces or person with a disability, Sunday to Thursday15 ₪
Senior citizen, student, security forces or person with a disability, Saturday18 ₪
Jezreel Valley Regional Council resident, Sunday to Thursday26 ₪
Jezreel Valley Regional Council resident, Saturday31 ₪
Guided group tour on a weekday, per visitor from age 5 (20 or more)35 ₪
Guided group tour on Saturday, per visitor from age 5 (20 or more)40 ₪
Guided tour for a group of pensioners on a weekday, per person (25 or more)21 ₪

The prices as its hours and prices page published them on 15 October 2026; prices can change. Read from pioneers.co.il on 2026-10-15. The full price list on pioneers.co.il

Photos

On its Facebook

For illustration: the area around HaEmek Museum, not the business itself. Its own pictures are on Instagram

The entrance of the museum of pioneer settlement at Yifat, a covered passage through a low building

A tall pale stone sculpture on a brick planter of red flowers in Yifat, beside a path with globe street lamps, a lawn and shade trees, with an old green farm machine on wheels behind.

Opening hours

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Opening hours by day
Sunday to Thursday	09:00-15:00
Friday and Saturday	Closed

Candle lighting 5:37 PMShabbat ends 6:33 PM

As published on pioneers.co.il, read 2026-10-15. All Shabbat times

Sources disagree on these hours

Friday, Saturday and holiday openings are announced on its site and its social pages; groups of 25 or more can book later hours, and guided tours on Fridays.

Location

Map showing HaEmek Museum at Kibbutz Yifat, Yifat

Kibbutz Yifat, Yifat3658300

Waze Google Maps

Train: Migdal HaEmek - Kfar Baruch3.3 km from the door, straight line
Bus: Nearest stop 322 mlines 67, 305

Questions

Sunday to Thursday 09:00 to 15:00, Friday and Saturday closed. As listed on pioneers.co.il, read on 15 October 2026.

No, it is closed on Friday and Saturday.

Kibbutz Yifat, Yifat, postcode 3658300. As listed on pioneers.co.il, read on 15 October 2026.

Its price list of 15 October 2026 lists Visitor from age 2, Sunday to Thursday at 30 ₪, Visitor from age 2, Saturday at 35 ₪, Senior citizen, student, security forces or person with a disability, Sunday to Thursday at 15 ₪, Senior citizen, student, security forces or person with a disability, Saturday at 18 ₪, among others. The full price list is on pioneers.co.il. Prices can change; the business has the latest.

By train: Migdal HaEmek - Kfar Baruch station is 3.3 km away. By bus: the nearest stops are יפעת (322 m), מסעף יפעת (362 m).

04-654-8974, as published on pioneers.co.il.

About HaEmek Museum

3.3 km from Migdal HaEmek - Kfar Baruch stationBus stops within 362 m: יפעת, מסעף יפעת.
Its own website and social pagesThe prices and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.

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HaEmek Museum is a museum at Kibbutz Yifat in Yifat, in the Northern District.

The price list it publishes on pioneers.co.il runs from Senior citizen, student, security forces or person with a disability, Sunday to Thursday at 15 ₪ to Guided group tour on Saturday, per visitor from age 5 (20 or more) at 40 ₪, read on 15 October 2026.

Hours, as listed on pioneers.co.il on 15 October 2026: Sunday to Thursday 09:00 to 15:00, Friday and Saturday closed.

The nearest railway station is Migdal HaEmek - Kfar Baruch, 3.3 km away. The nearest bus stops are יפעת (322 m), מסעף יפעת (362 m).

It is listed as wheelchair accessible on pioneers.co.il.

Jezreel Valley Regional Council 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: Listed as wheelchair accessible pioneers.co.il2026-10-15
Companies Registrar: Its pages name no company. pioneers.co.il2026-10-15
Municipal business licence: Businesses in Yifat are licensed by the Jezreel Valley Regional Council. Its business licensing and promotion department publishes the licensing process, the uniform specification of requirements, the government ministries' conditions for a licence, its enforcement policy, an online licence application and yearly business licensing reports for 2020 to 2024, but its pages do not say which businesses hold a licence, and no list of them is on data.gov.il. emekyizrael.org.il2026-10-05

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Field	Value	Source	Read on	Use
Name	מוזיאון העמק / HaEmek Museum	pioneers.co.il	2026-10-15	Fact, shown
Address	Kibbutz Yifat	pioneers.co.il	2026-10-15	Fact, shown
Coordinates	32.67379, 35.22485 (the museum's website)	pioneers.co.il	2026-10-15	Fact, shown
Phone	04-654-8974	pioneers.co.il	2026-10-15	Fact, shown
Website	pioneers.co.il	pioneers.co.il	2026-10-15	Fact, shown
Logo	Its own icon, from pioneers.co.il	pioneers.co.il	2026-10-15	Quoted, attributed
Opening hours	Sunday to Thursday 09:00 to 15:00, Friday and Saturday closed	pioneers.co.il	2026-10-15	Fact, shown
What happens here	Family Saturday	pioneers.co.il	2026-10-15	Fact, shown
Prices	9 items with prices	pioneers.co.il	2026-10-15	Fact, shown
Accessibility	Disabled parking at the main entrance and at the museum's upper level; a step-free, wheelchair-suited path from the main entrance through the settlement yard to the cafeteria and the John Deere yard, and another up to the upper level with the gallery, the honey pavilion and the events area; accessible paths to the garden and to the restored synagogue; accessible toilets at the main entrance and on the upper level; accessible signs and explanatory texts; and tours adapted for blind and low-vision visitors.	pioneers.co.il	2026-10-15	Fact, shown
Train and bus	Migdal HaEmek - Kfar Baruch 3.3 km; יפעת 322 m; מסעף יפעת 362 m	openstreetmap.org	2026-10-15	Fact, shown
Companies Registrar	Its pages name no company.	pioneers.co.il	2026-10-15	Fact, shown
Business licence	Businesses in Yifat are licensed by the Jezreel Valley Regional Council. Its business licensing and promotion department publishes the licensing process, the uniform specification of requirements, the government ministries' conditions for a licence, its enforcement policy, an online licence application and yearly business licensing reports for 2020 to 2024, but its pages do not say which businesses hold a licence, and no list of them is on data.gov.il.	emekyizrael.org.il	2026-10-05	Fact, shown
Photographs	2 licensed	instagram.com	2026-10-15	Linked, not copied

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