Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
Location 4 Ha'banim St., Herzliya, 4637904
Type Art museum, Contemporary art museum
Director Dr. Aya Lurie
Website www.herzliyamuseum.co.il/english/homepage

The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Hebrew: מוזיאון הרצליה לאמנות) is contemporary art museum, established in 1965. The museum is located in Herzeliya, Israel. The museum main focus is on Israeli and international contemporary art. Museum building is designed by the architect Yaakov Rechter. The Yad Labanim organisation, which commemorates Israeli fallen soldiers is located in the same building.[1]

The museum does not have a permanent collection and it holds painting, sculpture, video, installation, photography and architecture exhibitions. Major area of museum activity is around modern technics of video installations and digital media.[2][3]

The museum has an educational program MUZA – A Place for Visual Experience. It holds different activities in fields of video art and photography, including workshops and courses.

The museum is known for promotion of collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian artists by showing the group exhibitions and organizing meetings and workshops for artists to work together.[4][5] Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art also exhibits art from different continents, showing works of artists, acclaimed in their countries, but not known well to the Western World.[6]

Notable exhibitions

See also

References

External links

Coordinates: 32°09′43″N 34°50′37″E / 32.1620°N 34.8436°E / 32.1620; 34.8436

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, January 21, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.