The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has been included in the list of the world’s top 100 most visited art museums of the past year.

The museum was ranked 77th among the most popular international museums, based on the number of visitors, and is the only Israeli museum included.

The museum reported 1,000,096 visitors in 2025, a five percent decrease from the previous year, but a 24% increase from 2019.

All participating museums send the relevant visitor data to The Art Newspaper, the publication that publishes the annual ranking.

It is the eighth time that the Tel Aviv Museum of Art has been included in the listing. It made the list in recent years, despite the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, and the war in Gaza.

The top 20 most visited museums include the Louvre at number one, along with Rome’s Vatican Museums, London’s British Museum and National Gallery, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris’s Musee d’Orsay and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

“Against all odds, and despite the museum being closed for many days due to the security situation, we succeeded over the past year in presenting........

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