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Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance. Guided tours of the Holocaust History Museum and the grounds are available for reservation by individuals, families, groups, organizations and companies, and tourists from Israel and abroad. The tours are offered in a variety of languages, and must be ordered in advance. Entrance to the Holocaust History Museum is permitted from ages 10 and up.
Sun-Thurs: 09:00-16:00
Fridays and holiday eves: 09:00-13:00
Saturday and Jewish holidays – Closed
* The Holocaust History Museum is open until 19:00 on Mondays and Thursdays.
Entrance to the Holocaust History Museum is until one hour before closing.
We recommend allowing 1.5-2 hours for your visit.
Visitor Services
An Audio Guide is available for visitors to the Holocaust History Museum in a variety of languages. The headsets can be hired in advance or on arrival.
Yad Vashem is situated on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. The site can be reached by public and private transportation. Underground parking is available for private cars, and there is a designated parking area for buses. For accessibility information >>>
Yad Vashem grounds comprise museums, research and education centers, exhibitions, monuments and memorials, including the Children's Memorial, the Hall of Remembrance, the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations, the Hall of Names, the Synagogue and the Valley of the Communities.
Visitors are invited to peruse the bookstore, which includes a wide range of books and publications, as well as Judaica and mementoes.
Our cafeteria offers both meat and dairy options.
View photographs of the monuments, sculptures and memorial sites on the grounds of Yad Vashem, ranked by TripAdvisor as one of the world's leading museums, and first on the list of Must-Sees in Jerusalem.
Spotlight
A special tour of the Holocaust History Museum to mark the occasion of a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, focusing on the fate of children and teenagers during the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem invites you to join guided tours of the Holocaust History Museum, given in English and Hebrew by Yad Vashem's professional guides.
Using light, music and color, the show depicts the spiritual, cultural and everyday life in the Jewish communities, spanning the years from the destruction of the Second Temple until World War II.
The extraordinary life story of artist and caricaturist Leo Haas.
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Head Curator: Vivian Uria
This exhibit presents a critical examination of documentation through the camera lens, focusing on the circumstances of the photograph and the worldview of the photographer, while referring to the Jewish photographers’ different and unique viewpoints as direct victims of the Holocaust.
Editors: Bella Gutterman and Avner Shalev
Mediating between a world that is no more and life rebuilt, the book leads the reader through the historical events as presented at the Yad Vashem Museum Complex, with documents, works of art and thousands of photographs.
Articles by Joan Ockman, Moshe Safdie, Avner Shalev, Elie Wiesel
This book explores how architecture confronts the challenges of commemoration and discusses the work of one of today’s leading architects.