Tel Aviv Museum of Art

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Hebrew: מוּזֵאוֹן תֵּל אָבִיב לְאֻמָּנוּת, romanized: Muzēʾon Tēl ʾĀvīv Ləʾommānuṯ; Arabic: مَتْحَف تَلّ أَبِيب لِلفُنُون, romanized: 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 from Israel and around the world. History See also: Art in Tel Aviv 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. Haim Gamzou was tapped to lead the foundation of the new museum as its first director. On 14 May 1948, 250 delegates quietly gathered at. 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 , Russian Constructivism , the De Stijl movement and Surrealism , French art from the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists to the School of Paris including works of Chaïm Soutine , key works by Pablo Picasso from the Blue and Neo-Classical periods to his Late Period, Cubist paintings by Albert Gleizes , Jean Metzinger , several sculptures by. 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. 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. Herta and Paul Amir Building 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.