teamLab Planets has recorded 2,504,264 visitors between April 1,
2023, and March 31, 2024, making it the world’s most-visited museum
dedicated to a single artist.
teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM in Toyosu, Tokyo (hereinafter
referred to as teamLab Planets), welcomed a total of 2,504,264
visitors from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024. This accomplishment
has earned it recognition by GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS as the most
visited museum (single art group) in the world.
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teamLab Planets in Tokyo has been
recognized by GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ as the most visited museum
(single art group) in the world.(teamLab, Highlight video of
teamLab Planets, Toyosu, Tokyo / Video: teamLab)
Additionally, teamLab Planets recorded a total of 2,412,495
visitors from January to December 2023 (*1). When compared to "The
Art Newspaper Visitor Figures 2023" survey (*2), which compares
visitor numbers at museums around the world, teamLab Planets
significantly surpassed other single-artist museums, such as the
Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (1,686,766 visitors) and the Picasso
Museum in Barcelona (1,047,094 visitors).
teamLab Planets also ranked 5th in Google's "Year in Search
2023" for the "Most Popular Museums in the World" (*3), following
the Louvre Museum (Paris), the British Museum (London), Musée
d'Orsay (Paris), and the Natural History Museum (London).
This recognition marks the second GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title
for a teamLab museum, following the 2019 record set by teamLab
Borderless: MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM in Odaiba, Tokyo,
which attracted 2,198,284 visitors (*4).
MASSIVE NEW AREA TO OPEN IN EARLY 2025
In early 2025, teamLab Planets will expand significantly with
the addition of major new art spaces. The new area will feature the
creative athletic space Athletics Forest, the co-creative
educational project Future Park, as well as the Catching and
Collecting Forest. The expansion will include over 10 art
installations, greatly enhancing the teamLab Planets
experience.
ATHLETICS FOREST
Athletics Forest is a creative athletic space based on the
concept of understanding the world through the body and thinking
about the world three-dimensionally. People immerse their entire
body in the complex and physically challenging three-dimensional
space of the interactive world.
"Humans perceive the world with their bodies and think with
their bodies. When you explore a complex, three-dimensional world
with your own body, you physically perceive the world
three-dimensionally and in turn your thoughts become
three-dimensional. We started this project, Athletics Forest, with
the hopes to enhance three-dimensional and higher-dimensional
thinking.
Spatial awareness is said to be correlated with innovation and
creativity. I grew up in a rural area and played in the mountains,
but in today's society and schools, the body is stationary. I think
cities are surrounded too much by flat information such as books,
TV, and smartphone screens. That is why we created a
three-dimensional space that excessively demands the physical body.
It is a space where people can perceive art with their physical
bodies."
- teamLab Founder, Toshiyuki Inoko
Read more about the Athletics Forest concept:
https://www.teamlab.art/concept/athletics-forest/
FUTURE PARK
Future Park is an educational project based on the concept of
collaborative creation (co-creation). It is an amusement park where
people can enjoy creating the world freely with others.
An artwork comes to life through the process of people creating
something together with others. As people continue to co-create,
the artwork evolves endlessly.
Read more about the Future Park concept:
https://www.teamlab.art/concept/future-park/
CATCHING AND COLLECTING FOREST
Catching and Collecting Forest is a new learning space based on
the concept of Catch, Study, Release, in which people explore the
world with their bodies, discovering, catching, and broadening
their interests based on what they catch. Visitors explore with
their smartphones, capture various creatures, study them, and
create their very own collection book.
When a visitor uses the smartphone's camera to look at an animal
moving in the space and shoots a Study Arrow at the animal in the
camera's view, the arrow flies out from the phone into the real
space. When the Study Arrow reaches the animal, it disappears from
the space and is added to the visitor’s own smartphone collection.
When a visitor swipes a captured animal towards a location seen in
the app's camera, the animal is released and returns to that
location.
"Physically exploring with others, discovering and catching
something, then taking the chance to broaden interests based on
what was caught. This is what we have been doing naturally over the
long course of human history. For humanity, the acts of catching
and gathering are fun, educational, and part of life."
- teamLab Founder, Toshiyuki Inoko
Read more about the Catching and Collecting Forest concept:
https://www.teamlab.art/concept/catching/
About teamLab Planets
In Google’s "Year in Search 2023" annual search ranking, teamLab
Planets ranked in the top 5 for "Most Popular Museums in the World"
(*3). Amidst global museums with over a century of history, teamLab
Planets is the sole museum from Japan to make the list.
Additionally, it was named the most popular tourist attraction in
Tokyo for two consecutive years by Honichi Lab (Visit Japan Lab)'s
"Ranking of Popular Tourist Attractions Among Foreign Visitors:
Tokyo Edition" (*5), chosen from a total of 2,662 attractions in
Tokyo.
Furthermore, teamLab Planets has garnered international acclaim,
including being the first in Japan to win "Asia's Leading Tourist
Attraction 2023" at the World Travel Awards, often referred to as
the Oscars of the travel industry.
teamLab Planets Concept
Together with Others, Immerse your Entire Body, Perceive with
your Body, and Become One with the World
teamLab Planets is a museum where you walk through water, and a
garden where you become one with the flowers. It comprises 4
large-scale artwork spaces and 2 gardens created by art collective
teamLab.
People go barefoot and immerse their entire bodies in the vast
artworks together with others. The artworks change under the
presence of people, blurring the perception of boundaries between
the self and the works. Other people also create change in the
artworks, blurring the boundaries between themselves and the works,
and creating a continuity between the self, the art, and
others.
Official website: teamlab.art.planets
Visitor Information
teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM Toyosu, Tokyo (6-1-16 Toyosu,
Koto-ku, Tokyo) https://maps.app.goo.gl/QVs4a34HD9qnvjUo8
Hours: Daily 9:00 - 22:00 Closed: Wednesday, August 7;
Wednesday, September 4 *Last entry one hour before closing. *Hours
are subject to change. *Please check the official website for
ticket prices.
teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM Ticket Store
https://teamlabplanets.dmm.com
Press Kit
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*1. Based on teamLab Planets ticket user
data (January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023).
*2. The Art Newspaper (2024) 'Visitor
Figures 2023: The 100 most popular art museums in the
world—blockbusters, bots and bounce-backs'. The Art Newspaper, 26
March. Available at:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/26/the-100-most-popular-art-museums-in-the-world-2023
*3 “artnet (2023) 'These Were the Most
Popular Museums in the World, According to Google’s "Year in
Search"'. artnet, 20 December. Available at:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/google-trends-top-museums-teamlab-ark-encounter-2411845
*4 Press release on the world record for
visitor numbers. Available at:
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000776.000007339.html
*5 Honichi Lab (2024) 'The Most Popular
Tourist Spots in Tokyo Among Foreign Visitors in 2024: Asakusa
Temple Ranks 3rd, and 1st Place is?'. Honichi Lab, 21 May.
Available at:
https://honichi.com/news/2024/05/21/202405_inboundranking_tokyo/
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