Negev Museum of Art

In the 1970s the municipality moved to its new building and the Governor's Mansion housed the art wing of the Negev Museum of Archaeology located in the nearby former Ottoman mosque.

Since 1987, under the directorship of Noa Tal, the museum started to operate independently, displaying temporary exhibitions of Israeli and international art.

[5] In 2011 the museum became part of Kivunim Company of leisure culture in Be'er Sheva with its new director and curator, art historian Dr Dalia Manor.

The year ended with an international exhibition of paper art, In Between, that travelled from the Wilfrid Israel Museum in Kibbutz Hazorea that organised it.

[6] During this exhibition the education programs of the museum expanded to include regular creative workshops offered to children in addition to guided tours for the general public.

In 2013 the museum exhibited a solo show of photographs by internationally renowned artist Micha Bar-Am consisting of photos taken in the south of Israel from the 1950s to the 2000s.

In October 2013, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War a historic group exhibition on the theme of memory and bereavement in Israeli art was opened.