Museum of Underground Prisoners

Before exploring the Knights' Halls climb up the stairs behind the ticket kiosk to the top of the Akko Citadel, a rambling structure built by the Turks in the late 18th century on 13th-century Crusader foundations. At the top of the stairs, turn left to reach the Museum of Underground Prisoners , which is dedicated to the Jewish resistance during the British Mandate. The citadel served for a while as a prison whose inmates included Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a leader of the Jewish underground, in the 1920s.

Exhibits include memorials to nine Jewish resistance fighters who were executed here (the gallows room is open to the public) and a model illustrating the successful mass breakout of 1947 - that scene in the movie Exodus was filmed here.