The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has broken an all-time record since its opening with 1,018,323 patrons visiting the museum in 2018.
The new figures indicate a 23% increase compared to the number of visitors to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2017, during which 831,151 visitor entries were recorded at the museum.
A line at the entrance to the "Modern Times" exhibition © Ariel Yannai
Among the reasons for the sharp increase in the number of visitors to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art are the "Modern Times" exhibition - which presents rare masterpieces of the 20th century's greatest artists from the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (including some of the most famous artists in the world like Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, and more). In the two and a half months since its opening, the exhibition has attracted more than 130,000 visitors.
"Modern Times" Exhibition © Edgar Degas, The Ballet Class, c. 1880
Among the other prominent exhibitions that attracted a large number of visitors to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2018 were the super successful exhibitions "Two" by Louise Bourgeois, "The Clock" by Christian Marclay and the exhibition by Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, one of the greatest photographers in the world. The joint activity of the museum with the digital department of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality and the high number of tourists that visited Tel Aviv last December also led to a significant increase in the number of visitors to the museum.
"Modern Times" © Elad Sarig