Tokyo Museum Gets Guinness World Record
The TeamLab Planets Tokyo exhibition was awarded a Guinness World Record for the most-visited museum dedicated to a single art group, with 2,504,264 recorded people in the year to March 2024. The exhibit in Toyosu, Tokyo features The Infinite Crystal Universe, Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People – Infinity, and Floating Flower Garden.

TeamLab Planets Tokyo has been recently distinguished by numerous honorable mentions. In September 2023 at the World Travel Awards, it was named Asia’s Leading Tourist Attraction with 2,412,495 visitors, outnumbering the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (1,686,766) and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona (1,047,094), according to “The Art Newspaper Visitor Figures 2023” survey.
teamLab has been steadily gaining global popularity since its founding in 2001 with exhibitions in New York, London, Paris, Singapore, and many other cities around the world. The collective was started by a diverse team of artists, engineers, mathematicians, animators, programmers and architects, who have continued to push the boundaries of art by immersing people in their creations. Through three-dimensional, experiential digital art, teamLab’s interactive exhibits have transformed the museum experience as we know it.

“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,” said founder Toshiyuki Inoko.
The exhibition announced an expansion of more than 10 art installations to occur in early 2025. It will soon feature a new educational exhibition titled Catching and Collecting Forest, an interactive learning space where people use smartphones to “catch, study and release” various animals and life forms as they roam the exhibit. “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,” said Inoko.

The expansion will also feature an interactive athletic and co-creative space titled the Athletics Forest and Learn and Play! Future Park. Future Park is an art amusement park where people can play and create freely, generating collaborative artwork that evolves endlessly as more people contribute. The Athletics Forest will feature various physical challenges and obstacles designed to engage visitors’ bodies and minds, encouraging active participation and exploration. “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 hopes to enhance three-dimensional and higher-dimensional thinking,” said Inoko.

TeamLab continues to push the boundaries of digital art and interactive experiences, and their upcoming exhibits promise to further captivate audiences around the world. The upcoming expansions are set to offer even more immersive and educational experiences, reinforcing their status as pioneers in the art world. Visitors can look forward to a dynamic blend of physical engagement and creative exploration, ensuring that teamLab remains at the forefront of the global art scene.
You can experience some of the works in the many permanent exhibits at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, or at large-scale permanent museums in Shanghai and Beijing.
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