Bet Yigʼal Alon, History and education museum in Ginosar, Israel

Bet Yigal Alon is a museum and educational center in Kibbutz Ginosar on the Sea of Galilee, housed in a building designed by architect Hanan Habaron. Its four permanent exhibitions cover the Mishnah and Talmud period, the Magdala Stone, Yigal Allon's life, and the Sea of Galilee. A special hall displays the 2,000-year-old wooden boat found in 1986 between Ginosar and Migdal.

The museum opened in 1987 in Kibbutz Ginosar, named after Yigal Allon, a kibbutz member and Palmach commander who is buried there. It is recognized as a heritage site by the Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel and by the Tziyunei Derech program. The permanent exhibitions trace Jewish settlement in the Galilee from the Mishnah and Talmud periods to the realization of the Zionist idea.

The museum's "Spring Encounter" meetings bring Jewish and Arab neighbours in the Galilee together, and many of the artworks and mosaics decorating the building and its garden grew out of these gatherings. The permanent displays draw on the collective memory of the Jewish people, from the Mishnah and Talmud period to the present.

The museum sits in Kibbutz Ginosar on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, next to the Palmach grove planted with eucalyptus in the 1930s by PICA. The wooden boat from Ginosar, found in 1986 between Ginosar and Migdal when the lake level was low, is displayed in a dedicated hall. Exhibitions, a gallery, a library and an archive on the Galilee and on Yigal Allon are inside the building designed by architect Hanan Habaron.

The wooden boat was found by chance in 1986 between Ginosar and Migdal, when the Sea of Galilee was at a low level. Carbon-14 dating placed it between 50 BCE and 70 CE, and it is displayed in a dedicated hall.