The Wilfrid Israel Museum is an art, cultural and educational institution located in the center of Kibbutz Hazorea.  The Museum maintains mutual relations with the neighboring areas as well as with places further afield.  The Museum presents its visitors with an exhibition of ancient and modern art from the Far and Near East in addition to Israeli art with a link to those cultures, while emphasizing the values of multi-culturalism, munificence and tolerance while taking the personality of Wilfrid Israel into consideration. 

The Museum was founded in 1951 as one of Israel's oldest museums. Initially the Museum was based on the collections of Wilfrid Israel, who was the son of a wealthy Jewish merchant of German origin, and the great-grandchild of a former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain.  During the turbulent times when the Nazis rose to power, Wilfrid established close relationships with the members of the "Werkleute" ("Practical people") movement, who later on founded Kibbutz Hazorea.  Wilfrid stepped forward to play his part during the Second World War to get Jewish children out of Europe and so saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews, but these courageous efforts cost him his life: During one of his missions in 1943, the plane he was travelling in was shot down by the Luftwaffe. In his will Wilfrid bequeathed his art collections to the members of Kibbutz Hazorea. 

The planning to build the Museum to house Wilfrid's collections began during the mid-1940s and was carried out by Munio Gitai Weinraub and Alfred Mansfeld, who were also responsible to all intents and purposes for the planning the Kibbutz's entire central area, together with development of the landscape and the immediate surroundings.  The joint work of these two architects all over the North and especially in the kibbutzim, combined social ideological thinking with the need to provide functional solutions with minimalist means. The planning suited the modernist approach, which was dominant in Eretz-Israel at that time.  The units in Weinraub's work are simple and detailed and these are still functioning in the Wilfrid Israel Museum to this day.  

Since 1951, the Museum has presented Wilfrid's collections, which were constantly expanded over the years, alongside diverse activities associated with the Museum.  One of the extensions was the addition of the local archaeological collections discovered and researched by Ezra Meirhof, a member of the Kibbutz. 

Parallel to the exhibitions the Museum also holds extensive educational activities for children and adults, including guided tours of the permanent and temporary exhibitions, gallery talks with the artists presenting their work at the exhibitions, in addition to study circles, and activities at a creative workshop at the Museum. 

The museum was founded on 1951 and was the first museum in Israel to exhibit East Asian art from the collection, which Wilfrid Israel accumulated during the 1920s, when he was travelling to Asia. The primary collection has grown throughout the years thanks to donations by various collectors.