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{{short description|Art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel}}
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|native_name       = מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות
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|caption           = Tel Aviv Museum of Art, main building 
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|curator           = [[Suzanne Landau]]
|established       = {{start date and age|1932}}
|location          = 27 Shaul Hamelech Blvd, Tel Aviv
|type              = [[Art museum]]
|director          = Tania Coen-Uzzielli
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The '''Tel Aviv Museum of Art''' ({{langx|he|מוּזֵאוֹן תֵּל אָבִיב לְאֻמָּנוּת|Muzēʾon Tēl ʾĀvīv Ləʾommānuṯ}}; {{Langx|ar|مَتْحَف تَلّ أَبِيب لِلفُنُون|Matḥaf Tall ʾAbīb Līl-funūn}}) is an [[art museum]] in [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]]. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and [[contemporary art]] both [[Visual arts in Israel|from Israel]] and around the world.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About \ Tel Aviv Museum of Art |url=https://www.tamuseum.org.il/en/about/ |access-date=2021-10-21 |website=www.tamuseum.org.il |language=en |archive-date=2020-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219073102/https://www.tamuseum.org.il/en/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==History==
{{See also|Art in Tel Aviv}}[[File:Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1 2013.jpg|thumb|250px|In 1989, [[Roy Lichtenstein]] created a giant two-panel mural especially for the museum hall]]
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art was established in 1932 in a building at 16 Rothschild Boulevard that was the former home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, [[Meir Dizengoff]], who had donated the property for a museum in memory of his wife, Zina, following her death in 1930.<ref>{{cite web |last=Goloperov |first=Vadim |title=Meir Dizengoff: The Odessan Who Built Tel Aviv |url=https://odessareview.com/meir-dizengoff-odessan-built-tel-aviv/ |website=odessareview.com |publisher=The Odessa Review |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-date=28 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128155903/http://odessareview.com/meir-dizengoff-odessan-built-tel-aviv/ }}</ref> On 14 May 1948, 250 delegates quietly gathered at the museum<ref>{{cite book |last=Slavicek |first=Louise |title=The Establishment of the State of Israel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zWmLEAAAQBAJ&pg=3 |publisher=Infobase Holdings, Inc |page=3 |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=1 September 2021 |isbn=9781646936618 |url-status=live |archive-date=24 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424001042/https://books.google.com/books?id=zWmLEAAAQBAJ&pg=3 }} {{ISBN|978-1-64693-661-8}}</ref> for the historic signing of the [[Israeli Declaration of Independence]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Declaring the State of Israel on May{{nbsp}}14, 1948 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/declaring-state-israel-may-14-1948-332152 |website=newsweek.com |publisher=Newsweek Digital |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=14 May 2015 |url-status=live |archive-date=6 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406170433/https://www.newsweek.com/declaring-state-israel-may-14-1948-332152 }}</ref> In 1971, the building became [[Independence Hall (Israel)|Independence Hall]] when the museum relocated to 27{{nbsp}}Shaul Hamelech Boulevard.<ref>{{cite web |last=Raymont |first=Henry |title=Declaring the State of Israel on May 14, 1948 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/19/archives/tel-avivs-new-museum-to-be-dedicated-today.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=19 April 1971 }}</ref>

Curator Nehama Guralnik began working at the museum in 1971, when French was the common language among staff, including the director, administrators, and the curators. Catalogues were printed in French and Hebrew, with English introduced later that decade. Guralnik curated more than 40 exhibitions during her 34-year tenure as international art curator.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gilerman |first=Dana |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/2005-03-21/ty-article/no-room-for-another-ego-at-the-museum/0000017f-e174-d9aa-afff-f97c5b460000 |title=No Room for Another Ego at the Museum |work=Haaretz |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=21 March 2005}}</ref>

The [[Helena Rubinstein]] Pavilion for Contemporary Art opened in 1959. Planning for a new building began in 1963 when the museum's collections of modern and contemporary art began to outgrow the premises. Construction commenced in 1966 but stopped for two years due to shortage of funds, before moving to its current location in 1971.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/19/archives/tel-avivs-new-museum-to-be-dedicated-today.html Tel Aviv's new museum to be dedicated today], [[New York Times]]</ref>

Another wing was added in 1999 and the [[Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden]] was established.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.telavivcity.com/eng/BDisplay.asp?BusinessCode=1637 |title=Tel Aviv Museum |access-date=2007-02-19 |archive-date=2007-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026085606/http://www.telavivcity.com/eng/BDisplay.asp?BusinessCode=1637 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The museum also contains "The [[Joseph Meyerhoff|Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff]] Art Education Center", opened in 1988.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tamuseum.org.il/about-us-tel-aviv-museum-of-art |title=About \ Tel Aviv Museum of Art |access-date=2015-02-09 |archive-date=2015-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206050237/http://www.tamuseum.org.il/about-us-tel-aviv-museum-of-art |url-status=live }}</ref>[[File:Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2 2013.jpg|thumb|250px|Tel Aviv Museum of Art, December 2013. The work "March of Time" by the artist [[Yaakov Agam]] is visible in the background.]] The museum houses a comprehensive collection of classical and contemporary art, especially [[Visual arts in Israel|Israeli art]], a sculpture garden and a youth wing.<ref>{{cite book |title=Facts and Figures |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZapI3ZgRjU0C&pg=PA121 |publisher=Israel Office of Information |page=121 |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=1985 |url-status=live |archive-date=7 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407181620/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZapI3ZgRjU0C&pg=PA121 }}</ref>

[[Suzanne Landau]], following 34 years at the [[Israel Museum]], was appointed director and chief curator of the museum in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Riba |first=Naama |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-11-25/ty-article-magazine/.premium/after-decades-at-the-top-of-the-israeli-art-world-suzanne-landau-is-back/0000017f-f099-d8a1-a5ff-f09bb9d30000 |title=After Decades at the Top of the Israeli Art World, Suzanne Landau Is Back With a New Adventure |work=Haaretz |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=25 November 2020 |archive-date=28 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828063802/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-11-25/ty-article-magazine/.premium/after-decades-at-the-top-of-the-israeli-art-world-suzanne-landau-is-back/0000017f-f099-d8a1-a5ff-f09bb9d30000 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2018, the museum set an all-time attendance record with 1,018,323 visitors, ranking 70th on the [[list of most visited art museums]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-tel-aviv-museum-of-art-drew-over-a-million-visitors-in-2018-1.6848922 |title=Tel Aviv Museum of Art drew over a million visitors in 2018 |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=2020-02-05 |archive-date=2020-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205080219/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-tel-aviv-museum-of-art-drew-over-a-million-visitors-in-2018-1.6848922 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019, the museum set a new attendance record, ranking 49th with 1,322,439 visitors.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldjewishtravel.org/listing/tel-aviv-museum-of-art/ |title=Tel Aviv Museum of Art |access-date=2023-04-05 |archive-date=2023-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405190039/https://www.worldjewishtravel.org/listing/tel-aviv-museum-of-art/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2022, it again ranked 49th, with 1,070,714 visitors.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cheshire |first1=Lee |last2=da Silva |first2=José |title=The 100 most popular art museums in the world—who has recovered and who is still struggling? |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/27/the-100-most-popular-art-museums-in-the-worldwho-has-recovered-and-who-is-still-struggling |website=The Art Newspaper |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=27 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328204505/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/27/the-100-most-popular-art-museums-in-the-worldwho-has-recovered-and-who-is-still-struggling |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2023, it was ranked 48th on ''[[The Art Newspaper|The Art Magazine]]''{{'}}s list of the 100 most popular museums in the world.<ref>{{cite web |last=Steinberg |first=Jessica |title=Tel Aviv Museum of Art among 50 most popular museums worldwide |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-museum-of-art-among-50-most-popular-museums-worldwide/ |website=The Times of Israel |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=4 April 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405092314/https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-museum-of-art-among-50-most-popular-museums-worldwide/ }}</ref>

On 23{{nbsp}}March 2023, Tel Aviv Museum of Art was partially closed, in participation with Israel's "day of paralysis"<ref>{{cite web |last=Seymour |first=Tom |title=Tel Aviv Museum of Art partially closes in support of Israel's 'day of paralysis' |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/23/tel-aviv-museum-art-closes-support-israel-protests |website=The Art Newspaper |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=23 March 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=6 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406213035/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/23/tel-aviv-museum-art-closes-support-israel-protests }}</ref> during the [[2023 Israeli judicial reform protests]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Steinberg |first=Jessica |title=Tel Aviv Museum of Art to darken galleries in protest on Thursday |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-museum-of-art-to-darken-galleries-in-protest-on-thursday/ |website=The Times of Israel |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=22 March 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=6 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406211000/https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-museum-of-art-to-darken-galleries-in-protest-on-thursday/ }}</ref> Following the [[October 7 attacks|7{{nbsp}}October attacks]] and subsequent incidents related to the [[Gaza war]], the [[Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)|Israel–Hezbollah conflict]], and the [[2024 Iran–Israel conflict]], the museum removed several items on display and stored them for safekeeping in a secured basement. It also moved other exhibitions to a more protected space on the facility's lower levels.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fearing Iran attack, Israeli museum hides top artworks |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240813-fearing-iran-attack-israeli-museum-hides-top-artworks |website=France 24 |access-date=14 August 2024 |date=14 August 2024 }}</ref> The plaza in front of the museum also became an encampment dedicated to the [[Gaza war hostage crisis|hostages in Gaza]] called [[Hostages Square]].

==Permanent collection==
The Museum's collection represents some of the leading artists of the first half of the 20th century and many of the major movements of modern art in this period: [[Fauvism]], [[German Expressionism]], [[Cubism]], [[futurism (art)|Futurism]], Russian [[Constructivism (art)|Constructivism]], the [[De Stijl]] movement and [[Surrealism]], French art from the [[Impressionists]] and [[Post-Impressionism|Post-Impressionists]] to the [[School of Paris]] including works of [[Chaïm Soutine]], key works by [[Pablo Picasso]] from the [[Picasso's Blue Period|Blue]] and Neo-Classical periods to his Late Period, Cubist paintings by [[Albert Gleizes]], [[Jean Metzinger]], several sculptures by [[Jacques Lipchitz]], and [[Surrealist]]s works of [[Joan Miró]].

One section of the Museum displays the history of Israeli art and its origins among local artists in the pre-state Zionist community of the early twentieth century.

In 1989, the American [[pop artist]] [[Roy Lichtenstein]] created a giant two-panel mural especially for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. It hangs in the entrance foyer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tamuseum.com/museum/roy.htm |title=Roy Lichtenstein, Tel Aviv Museum Mural |access-date=2009-12-23 |archive-date=2008-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113014849/http://www.tamuseum.com/museum/roy.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Collection includes several masterpieces, among them the painting ''Friedericke Maria Beer'', 1916 by the Austrian artist [[Gustav Klimt]] and ''Untitled Improvisation V'', 1914, by the Russian master [[Wassily Kandinsky]].

The [[Peggy Guggenheim Collection]], donated in 1950, includes 36 works by [[Abstract art|Abstract]] and [[Surrealist]] artists, including works of [[Jackson Pollock]], [[William Baziotes]], and [[Richard Pousette-Dart]], and Surrealists works by [[Yves Tanguy]], [[Roberto Matta]], and [[André Masson]].[[File:Tel_Aviv-Yafo_(12275871006).jpg|thumb|Herta and Paul Amir Building]]Sculptures are displayed in the entrance plaza and in an internal sculpture garden.
In addition to a permanent collection, the museum hosts temporary exhibitions of individual artists' work and group shows curated around a common theme.

==Buildings (21st century)==
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art includes The Paulson Family Foundation Building, its main structure on Shaul Hamelech Boulevard; the Herta and Paul Amir Building; and the Eyal Ofer Pavilion.<ref>{{cite web |title=Buildings and Architecture |publisher=Tel Aviv Museum of Art |url=https://www.tamuseum.org.il/en/about/buildings-and-architecture/ |access-date=7 April 2023 |archive-date=7 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407183543/https://www.tamuseum.org.il/en/about/buildings-and-architecture/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Paulson Family Foundation Building===
Marking its 90th anniversary, the museum's main building was refurbished and renamed The Paulson Family Foundation Building in 2021, in honour of its benefactors.<ref>{{cite news |last=Galanti |first=Michael |title=Tel Aviv Museum of Art receives $15m. donation on 90th anniversary |url=https://www.jpost.com/must/mustinspire/tel-aviv-museum-of-art-receives-15m-donation-on-90th-anniversary-670301/ |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=7 June 2021 |access-date=7 April 2023 |archive-date=10 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410061333/https://www.jpost.com/must/mustinspire/tel-aviv-museum-of-art-receives-15m-donation-on-90th-anniversary-670301 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Herta and Paul Amir Building===
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In November 2011, the Herta and Paul Amir Building on the western side of the museum opened. It houses an Israeli Architecture Archive, and a new section of [[Photography]] and [[Visual arts]]. The new building was designed by architect [[Preston Scott Cohen]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Tourist Israel |title=Tel Aviv Museum of Art |date=30 October 2011 |url=http://www.touristisrael.com/tel-aviv-museum-of-art/368/ |access-date=7 November 2011 |archive-date=17 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317161817/https://www.touristisrael.com/tel-aviv-museum-of-art/368/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The new wing houses 18,500 square feet of gallery space over five floors.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://israel21c.org/culture/flocking-to-tel-aviv-art-museums-new-wing |title=Flocking to Tel Aviv Art Museum's new wing |access-date=2012-12-12 |archive-date=2012-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624175016/http://israel21c.org/culture/flocking-to-tel-aviv-art-museums-new-wing/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Amir building also contains Pastel, a fine dining restaurant led by Chef Hilel Tavakuli.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Pastel-in-the-Tel-Aviv-Museum-is-a-pleasure-for-the-palate-503795 |title=Pastel in the Tel Aviv Museum is a pleasure for the palate |access-date=2018-11-17 |archive-date=2018-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117233449/https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Pastel-in-the-Tel-Aviv-Museum-is-a-pleasure-for-the-palate-503795 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/food/where-is-the-world-s-most-beautiful-restaurant-1.5363258 |title=The world's most beautiful restaurant... Is in Tel Aviv |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=2018-11-17 |archive-date=2018-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117183055/https://www.haaretz.com/food/where-is-the-world-s-most-beautiful-restaurant-1.5363258 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.israel21c.org/worlds-most-beautiful-restaurant-is-in-the-tel-aviv-museum/ |title=World's most beautiful restaurant is in the Tel Aviv Museum |date=28 January 2015 |access-date=17 November 2018 |archive-date=18 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118040727/https://www.israel21c.org/worlds-most-beautiful-restaurant-is-in-the-tel-aviv-museum/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Eyal Ofer Pavilion===
In May 2023, following an extensive renovation of the [[Helena Rubinstein]] Pavilion for Contemporary Art, it was reopened as the [[Eyal Ofer]] Pavilion, in honour of its contemporary [[Benefactor (law)|benefactor]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Riba |first=Naama |title=Tel Aviv Museum Renames Building After Richest Man in Israel |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/2019-03-17/ty-article/.premium/tel-aviv-museum-pavilion-renamed-honoring-richest-man-in-israel/0000017f-e4b9-d38f-a57f-e6fbe4220000 |work=Haaretz |date=17 March 2019 |access-date=7 April 2023 |archive-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125224217/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/2019-03-17/ty-article/.premium/tel-aviv-museum-pavilion-renamed-honoring-richest-man-in-israel/0000017f-e4b9-d38f-a57f-e6fbe4220000 |url-status=live }}</ref> with the first retrospective of the works of Swiss sculptor [[Alberto Giacometti]] in Israel exhibited on all four levels. The renovation was led by architect Amnon Rechter, whose father, [[Israel Prize]] laureate architect [[Yaakov Rechter]], built the original pavilion in 1959.<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-742240 Opening of the first exhibition of Alberto Giacometti in Israel] The Jerusalem Post. 7 May 2023.</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery class="center" widths="180px" heights="180px">
File:Gustav Klimt 051.jpg|''Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer'', [[Gustav Klimt]], 1916
File:Vincent Willem van Gogh 032.jpg|''[[Copies by Vincent van Gogh#Copies after Jean-François Millet|The Shepherdess]] (after Millet)'', [[Vincent Willem van Gogh]], 1899
File:Maurycy Gottlieb - Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur.jpg|''[[Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur]]'', [[Maurycy Gottlieb]], 1878
File:Camille Pissarro - Rue L´Hermitage (2) - 1866-68.jpg|''Rue L´Hermitage'', [[Camille Pissarro]], 1866
File:Grainstack at Giverny 1889 Claude Monet Tel Aviv.jpg|''[[Haystacks (Monet series)|Grainstack at Giverny]]'', [[Claude Monet]], 1889
File:Dome of the rock, 1908 by Samuel Hirszenberg.jpg|''Dome of the rock'', [[Samuel Hirszenberg]], 1908
File:Henry Moore-Reclining Figure-Tel Aviv Museum of Art.jpg|''[[Reclining Figure 1969–70]]'', [[Henry Moore]], 1960s
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Israeli art]]
*[[List of largest art museums]]
*[[Hostages Square]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.tamuseum.org.il/en/ The Tel Aviv Museum of Art]
*{{cite web |title=Tel Aviv Museum of Art |ref=none |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/tel-aviv-museum-of-art}} 
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