The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, founded in 1932 in Tel Aviv, is one of Israel's major art museums and an international cultural center for architecture and design in Israel. Opened in 1971, the museum houses a central gallery with a comprehensive collection of classical and modern art, especially Israeli art; a youth museum is housed; and an auditorium that regularly hosts recitations, indoor concerts and broadcasts of art films; In addition, there are many exhibition halls for short-term exhibitions. The Herena Museum of Modern Art is also part of the museum. In 2002, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art held a construction design competition to build a new pavilion, and in October 2011, the new pavilion Hertha and Paul Amir pavilion was completed. In addition to its collection of exhibits, the museum also hosts a series of musical and dance performances, films, philosophy and art lectures. Israel's most comprehensive electronic art library and art documentation center serves over 15,000 students and scholars annually. The library contains the most recent catalogue of mainstream art journals and receives exhibitions of contemporary and contemporary art, photography, design and architecture in Israel. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is the most comprehensive documentation center in the Middle East. [2] Every week, about 1,500 children, adolescents and adults of all ages attend courses on painting, ceramics, sculpture, photography, video, computer art and printmaking at the Joseph Museum and Rebecca Mayerhof Art Education Center (Museum''s Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Art Education Center).