Israeli National Maritime Museum

The Athlit Ram, a bronze ram from a warship of the 2nd century BC, is the best-known piece at Haifa's Israeli National Maritime Museum (in Hebrew, HaMuze'on HaYami HaLe'umi). A ram was the armoured fitting at a warship's bow used to strike enemy vessels. It is one of the archaeological finds on permanent display at this museum, which covers both maritime history and archaeology.

The museum was founded in 1953 from the private collection of Aryeh Ben-Eli, who also became its first director. Since 1972 it has occupied its current premises near the northern beachhead of Mount Carmel, between the Stella Maris and Bat Galim neighbourhoods. The Israeli Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum and the Cave of Elijah are nearby.

The museum also houses the Marine Workshop of the University of Haifa's Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies. The workshop provides diving and field surveying services for the institute's research.