The Museum Collections

The Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art was founded in the beginning of the 1930s, prior to the official opening of the Museum in 1932. From the outset, the Collection grew rapidly thanks to the addition of entire collections and individual works donated by collectors from around the world.

The Collection focuses on the major trends of Modernism, from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, though the main avant-garde streams of the early 20th century, the School of Paris, and the New York School, up to the art of the 1960s. This part of the Collection is complemented by the collection of Contemporary Art, which is continuously growing. A number of collections and important groups of works of the Department are worthy of special mention.

The Mizne-Blumental Collection | The Simon and Marie Jaglom Collection | The Moshe and Sara Mayer Collection
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection | The Erich Goeritz Collection | Collection of Jacques Lipchitz Sculptures
The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation | Collection of Works by James Ensor
The Helene and Zygfryd Wolloch Collection of Modern Sculpture