„The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is Israel’s leading museum of modern and contemporary art, and home to one of the world’s largest collections of Israeli art. Since its founding in 1932, the Museum has served as one of Tel Aviv’s major cultural hubs, displaying a vibrant mix of permanent collections and temporary exhibitions in a wide variety of fields – painting, sculpture, prints and drawings, photography, video, architecture and design.
A large part of the Museum’s permanent collections has been generously donated by artists, art patrons and benefactors. The holdings are also complemented and enriched by numerous works and collections entrusted to the Museum, which serve as a testimony to the extraordinary international support this institution receives from dedicated collectors and friends around the world.„
Collection:
Modern and Contemporary Art
„Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s collection of international modern and contemporary art encompasses works from the middle of the 19th century to the present. It features the harbingers and formative movements of European Modernism, from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the latter half of the 19th century, to the avant-garde tendencies of the first decades of the 20th century: Fauvism, Cubism, German Expressionism, different forms of…..”
Israeli Art
„The Museum is home to one of the most comprehensive collections of Israeli art in the world. This unique collection traces the development of Israeli art from its beginnings and through the 1920s – when the Modernist style of painting in Israel emerged – to contemporary Israeli art. Israeli artists have been particularly concerned with questions of identity and conflict……”
Prints and Drawings
„The Department of Drawings and Prints houses a collection of 25 thousand works on paper: sketches, drawings, prints, artists’ books, and illustrated books of artists from all periods, with a special emphasis on artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The department collection has grown along with the Museum, thanks to the contributions of collections from all over the world, and acquisitions, particularly of Israeli art, which is represented through all periods…..”
Photography
„The Museum’s photography collection was begun in 1977 with Israeli photographer Micha Bar Am, and encompasses important pictures of the Middle East taken by 19th and early 20th century European photographers, such as Francis Frith and Félix Bonfils, and a collection of rare glass negatives of E.M. Lilien donated by the Schocken family; works by American photojournalists W. Eugene Smith and Weegee, donated by Michael S. Sachs; as well as photographs by Robert Capa donated by Cornelia and Edith Capa, and other international Modernist and Post-Modernist artists…..”
Architecture and Design
„The exhibitions of the Department of Design and Architecture offered a venue for expression in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century to an inter-disciplinary approach that represents the unfinished edges between design and art, the sub-conscious of architecture and design as well as architectural practice that raises questions about the relationship between built-up space and the balance of power involved…..”
Old Masters
„The Department of Old Masters was established (as an independent department) in 1988. The Museum’s Old Masters Collection, which includes about 150 paintings and sculptures and some 50 works on loan, is presented in six galleries: four galleries in the Museum’s main building, and two galleries dedicated to decorative art at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion…..”
The Conservation Department
„The central role of the Conservation Department is to care for the TAMA’s collection and to ensure that it is available for future generations to enjoy. In doing so, conservators must find ways to protect works of art from deterioration, while making them accessible to the viewing public…..”
Photography and Copyright Services
„The Museum allows artists in different fields, advertisers, designers, and publishing houses to order digital photographs from the data base of quality photographs in the Museum collection….”
Study Rooms
„….The William J. Goldenberg Graphics Study Room allows the visitor a closer look at the works on paper in the Museum collection, in an atmosphere that is congenial to study and research…..”
VISITING HOURS
Sun: CLOSED
Mon, Wed: 10.00 – 16.00
Tues, Thurs: 10.00 – 22.00
Fri: 10.00 – 14.00
Sat: 10.00 – 16.00
Bus Nos. 9, 18, 28, 70, 90, 111
27 Shaul Hamelech Blvd, POB 33288, The Golda Meir Cultural and Art Center, 61332012 Tel Aviv, Israel
Information, Box Office: +972 (0)3 6077020
Reservations by phone: 14.00-21.00
Administration, Offices: +972 (0) 3 6077000
Sun – Thurs: 08.00-16.00
Fax +972 (0)3 6958099
Email: info@tamuseum.com
Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art
Bus 5, 26
6 Tarsat Blvd, 64283 Tel Aviv, Israel
Phone No. +972 (0)3 5287196
Pavilion Shop open during visiting hours
Free entrance
The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Art Education Center
Bus 9, 11, 26, 56, 89, 92
8 Dubnov St, 64732 Tel Aviv, Israel
Phone +972 (0)3 6919155
Fax +972 (0)3 6919157
Email: meyerhoff@tamuseum.com
informtaion from:
http://www.tamuseum.org.il/
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