 Haifa has over a dozen museums . The most popular museum is the Israel National Museum of Science , Technology , and Space , which recorded almost 150 @,@ 000 visitors in 2004 . The museum is located in the historic Technion building in the Hadar neighborhood . The Haifa Museum of Art houses a collection of modern and classical art , as well as displays on the history of Haifa . The <unk> Museum of Japanese Art is the only museum in the Middle East dedicated solely to Japanese art . Other museums in Haifa include the Museum of <unk> , the National Maritime Museum and Haifa City Museum , the Hecht Museum , the <unk> Archaeological Museum of Grain <unk> , the Railway Museum , the <unk> Immigration and Navy Museum , the Israeli Oil Industry Museum , and <unk> Artists ' House . As part of his campaign to bring culture to Haifa , Mayor Abba <unk> provided the artist <unk> @-@ Katz with a building on Mount Carmel to house his collection of <unk> , which is now a museum . The Haifa Educational Zoo at <unk> <unk> park houses a small animal collection including Syrian brown bears , now extinct from Israel . <unk> the zoo is the <unk> House biology institute . In the close vicinity of Haifa , on the Carmel , the Northern " Hai @-@ Bar " ( " wild life " ) operated by Israel 's Parks and Reserves Authority for the purpose of breeding and reintroduction of species now extinct from Israel , such as Persian <unk> Deer . 
