The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is Israel's first art museum, founded in 1932. It is worth to the "white city" which opens onto the Mediterranean, so named because of the presence of hundreds of buildings in the Bauhaus dating back to the 1930s, the title of “Cultural Capital of Israel”.
The Tel Aviv Museum (as it was known until 1989) was established at the instigation of the city's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, who envisioned the growth of Tel Aviv into a modern and vibrant metropolis with all its cultural institutions, including an art museum.
Meir Dizengoff appealed to his personal connections around the world and donated his own private residence as the new museum's first home.
The inaugural exhibition included works from his collection (Ury Lesser, Mané Katz, Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall and Chana Orloff), replicas by masters (Michelangelo, Verrocchio, Bernini) and works on loan from 34 local artists (Yosef Zaritsky, Aharon Avni, David Handler, Anna…
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