The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is included in the list of the top 100 most visited museums in the world in the past year.
The museum ranks 77th among the most popular international museums based on visitor numbers and is the only Israeli museum included.
According to the museum’s report, the number of visitors in 2025 will be 1,000,096, a 5% decrease from the previous year, but a 24% increase from 2019.
All participating museums submit relevant visitor data to Art Newsletter, a publication that publishes annual rankings.
This is the eighth time the Tel Aviv Museum of Art has been included in the list. It was named to the list in recent years despite the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 and the war in Gaza.
In addition to the Louvre in first place, the top 20 most visited museums also include the Vatican Museums in Rome, the British Museum and National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Tania Cohen-Uzzieri, director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, said: “Despite all expectations and despite the museum being closed for many days due to the security situation, we have managed to organize outstanding art exhibitions from Israel and around the world over the past year and attract large audiences.”
“After the war, the Tel Aviv Museum became a cultural hub for Israeli society,” she said. “We will continue to respond and act according to changing realities.”
Mr. Cohen-Uzzieri expressed his gratitude to the staff, the Israeli art community, and the public for choosing to visit the museum and actively participating in cultural life despite these complex and difficult times.
During the past two-and-a-half years of war, the museum has moved art into storage four times. The square outside the museum was temporarily renamed Hostage Square and was the site of many gatherings and events for Gaza’s hostages.
A few days after October 7, 2023, the museum, like other museums around Israel, discovered that all international projects and collaborations with Israeli art institutions were on hold, first because of the war and then because of the pro-Palestinian cultural boycott aimed at isolating Israel.
Still, the museum’s staff has managed to reimagine the exhibition of art from Israel and around the world in collaboration with music festivals, theatrical productions and other performances that fill the halls, Cohen-Uzzieri said.
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