(Tokyo) – teamLab’s immersive art museum, Planets, in Toyosu, Japan, welcomed 2,504,264 visitors from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, earning a world record for the most visited museum in the single art group.

According to the Art Newspaper Visitor Figures 2023 survey, teamLab Planets surpassed other single-artist museums, such as the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.

This recognition is the second Guinness World Record, following the record set by teamLab Borderless: MORI Building Digital Museum in Odaiba in 2019, which attracted 2,198,284 visitors.

In 2025, teamLab Planets will expand with the addition of major new art space alongside the creative athletic space Athletics Forest, co-creative educational project Future Park, and more than 10 art installations.

Toshiyuki Inoko, Founder of teamLab, says: “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.”

Inoko adds: “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.”

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