Often housing works that are as unique as they are interesting, museums are no less art objects themselves.
Weisman Art Museum
Like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Frank Gehry is the architect of the Weisman Museum. Located in Minnesota (USA), this museum is affiliated with the University of Minneapolis. It was made famous by its unusual shape and design.
Georges-Pompidou
Conceived and designed by Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Ranchini, the CNAC is located in the heart of Paris. It is a polycultural institution that brings together more than 100,000 works of art and attracts more than 5 million visitors per year.
Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao)
Designed by Frank Gehry, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is one of the most visually impressive museums in the world, with its all-titanium covering. This contemporary art museum is one of the five museums opened by the foundation of art collector Solomon R. Guggenheim.
Center Pompidou-Metz
Located in the Lorraine region of France, the Centre Pompidou-Metz is one of the most visited museums in France. It was designed by architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines. Many works of art of all types are exhibited there.
Vitra Design Museum
Imperial War Museum North
Designed by architect David Libsekind, the Imperial War Museum is famous for its Air Shard, the tower with the pointed top that marks the main entrance. Like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Imperial War Museum North is clad in aluminum.
Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art
Designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, this building is the headquarters of the eponymous foundation, inaugurated in 1994, on Boulevard Raspail in Paris. More than 1300 works of all disciplines of contemporary art are housed here.
Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations
Designed by Rudy Ricciotti, the MuCEM brings together anthropological artifacts related to the history and civilizations that populated Europe and the Mediterranean. The museum is cubic in shape and is located in Marseille, France.
Paul Klee Center
Designed by museum architect Renzo Piano, the Paul Klee Center (Bern, Switzerland) houses nearly 4,000 works by the German painter. In addition to the artworks, the museum displays a collection of the artist’s personal artifacts.
Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art
Designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and engineer Bruno Conrini, the Museum of Contemporary Art, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is known for its unusual UFO-like shape.
NEMO
Located in the port of Amsterdam, the NEMO (acronym for New Metropolis) museum is dedicated to science and technology. It was conceived and designed by Renzo Piano. The museum has the shape and impressive stature of the front of a ship.
Renzo Piano
Born in 1937, architect and life senator of the Italian Republic Renzo Piano has imagined, designed and built nearly 20 museums in his career. In the course of the museums he has helped build, Piano has developed a real aesthetic: the museum must be sober, using filters to produce a zenithal lighting, optimal for the presentation of works. Renzo Piano won the most prestigious prize in architecture, the Pritzker, in 1998.
