TEL AVIV.- Tel Aviv Museum of Art has broken its all-time records with 1,018,323 visits during 2018.

These data point to a 23% increase in the number of visitors from 2017, when 831,151 visits were recorded.

One of the reasons for this sharp increase is the exhibition "Modern Times" which features rare masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art by the greatest artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, among them Cézanne, Monet, van Gogh, Degas, Matisse, Brancusi, Picasso and Renoir. Since opening in October 2018, the exhibition has attracted over 130,000 visitors! The exhibition is on show until 2 February 2019.

Other outstanding exhibitions during 2018 that attracted a large number of visitors were "Louise Bourgeois: Twosome," Christian Marclay's "The Clock" and the current exhibition by Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, a world-renowned photographer.

The significant rise in the number of visitors is also due to the Teder events, the White Nights events, Digitel collaborations with the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality as well as the high number of tourists in Tel Aviv in the past December.

Mayor Ron Huldai has said: "I congratulate Tel Aviv Museum of Art for its unprecedented achievement; the Museum, the 'beloved child of Dizengoff,' continues to bring our city glory and respect. I am delighted the Municipality's investment in culture and art has served as a center of attraction to citizens and tourists alike, and that the public is voting with its feet."