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• 2019: XING founder Lars Hinrichs starts developing the museum based on the conceptual model of the “teamLab Borderless” exhibition in Tokyo
• 2021: Foundation of Digital Art Museum GmbH with headquarters in Hamburg
• The museum is built in Hamburg's HafenCity, in the Elbbrücken quarter

teamLab, founded in 2001 in Tokyo, is an international art collective

• The group includes artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects**
• teamLab exhibitions have already taken place in New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Silicon Valley, Beijing and Melbourne
• Works by teamLab are in the permanent collection of the Museum Of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Art Gallery Of New South Wales (Sydney), the Asia Society Museum (New York) and other museums
• Since 2024** teamLab has had a permanent home in the Mori Building Digital Art Museum, Tokyo. Here, artworks created with the help of 520 computers and 470 projectors are displayed on an area of 10,000 square meters
• In addition to teamLab Borderless, the teamLab Planets exhibition can also be seen in Tokyo: Here, a total of 2,504,264 visitors were welcomed from April 2023 to the end of March 2024. According to Guinness World Records, this makes teamLab Planets the most visited single art museum in the world
• teamLab Planets' visitor numbers thus significantly exceed other individual art 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 ranked 5th in Google's “Year in Search 2023”** for the “most popular museums in the world”, after the Louvre (Paris), the British Museum (London), the Musée d'Orsay (Paris) and the Natural History Museum (London)