Tel Aviv Museum of Art - Art Museum with an unusual history. The core of his collection consists of works by artists of the first half of the XX century, including masterpieces.

Museum opened shortly after the founding of Tel Aviv, Israel long before gaining independence. All meeting initially placed in the home of the first mayor of Tel Aviv Meir Dizengoff.

A native of Bessarabia (Russian empire), Narodnaya Volya, engineer Tcherniakov Dizengoff in 1905 he settled in Jaffa. In 1909, sixty-six families gathered at the coastal dunes to play a lot of land: they would then establish the first Jewish city in Palestine. One of the plots bought and Qing Meir Dizengoff, built a house. Meir became the head of the municipality; when the area grew and turned into a town, he was elected mayor.

In 1930, the beloved Jing died. In memory of the wife of Meir presented family house on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv. He then proposed to open an art gallery, which will be the basis of a family collection of Dizengoff. At the opening of the museum in 1932, the mayor said: "It is impossible to build homes, pave streets and improve the city without worrying about aesthetics and harmony, not instilling public aesthetic taste." Sixteen years later, David Ben-Gurion chose this famous building to proclaim the Declaration of Independence of Israel. Here at first about the country's parliament.

Over time, the museum was crowded in the house. In 1971, most of the collection was transferred to the built by architect Dan Eitan and Yitzhak Yashar main building on the Boulevard Shaul Ha-Melech. Later he was the architect Preston Scott Cohen was attached to the west wing, added a sculpture garden.

The museum's collection of more than 40 thousand exhibits - works by artists representing the art of XX century: the Impressionists, Fauves and German Expressionists, Cubists, Futurists, the Russian Constructivists. Here you can see paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cézanne, Sisley, Matisse, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Chagall, Picasso. The star of the museum - the famous "Portrait Friederike Maria Beer" painted by the famous Austrian modernist Gustav Klimt.

There is a museum in the very representative office of the old European masters, including 130 works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Reynolds, Canaletto, Rigaud. In 1950, the museum has also become the owner of the paintings from the collection of Peggy Guggenheim, the patron saint of American abstract artist Paul Jackson Pollock. The gift consisted of the work of Pollock, Baziotisa, Puzett-Dart, Tanguy, Matta, Masson.

It is adjacent to the museum sculpture garden, named after a prominent Israeli fashion designers Lola Beer Ebner, at one time to develop a uniform for female soldiers of the IDF. There outdoors exhibited sculptures Calder, Gucci, Maillol, Lipschitz, Caro, Graham, as well as prominent Israeli artists - Ulman, Berg, Cohen-Levy.