Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary art museum in Herzliya, Israel.
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art occupies a Brutalist exposed-concrete building by architect Yaakov Rechter, planned with the Yad Labanim memorial and opened in 1975. Its 1,500 sq m of galleries form a circular sequence of halls around an inner courtyard, linked by long narrow slots. A 20 m long, 4 m high concrete wall leads from the separate entrance to two openings, one into the original main hall.
The museum was established in 1965 from a collection of paintings donated by Eugene da Villa. It moved to its current Brutalist-style building in 1975, becoming an important cultural landmark for the city since then.
The museum presents four annual exhibition cycles featuring works by Israeli and international artists through installations, videos, photographs, and sculptures. Visitors experience a mix of local and global artistic perspectives throughout the year.
The museum offers educational programs, workshops, and visual arts courses for visitors of different levels. You can navigate easily through the exhibition spaces and take as much time as you need to explore the collection.
The memorial room at the heart of the building has 4.5-metre exposed concrete walls, a natural skylight and the names of fallen soldiers on glass panels beside them. In the mid-1990s the concrete platform in its centre was covered with white mosaic and a truncated-tree sculpture by Gil Shachar was added.
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