Mishkan Museum of Art

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

One of the kibbutz members, painter Haim Atar [he], organized an "art corner" in his studio, a small wooden hut, in 1937.

[2] An imposing museum building, designed by an architect Samuel Bickels [he], was inaugurated in 1948.

[3] Later the building became a source of inspiration for some of the 20th century's leading architects, among them Louis Kahn and Renzo Piano.

[4] During construction of the museum, the 1952 split of Ein Harod into Ein Harod (Ihud) and Ein Harod (Meuhad) happened, but the museum was preserved as the joint institution for the split kibbutzim.