5 Art Museums With Buildings as Memorable as Their Collections
A museum building can frame the art, guide movement, transform a city skyline, or become a cultural symbol in its own right. The most memorable examples make arrival and circulation feel like part of the exhibition.
These five museums are destinations for architecture as well as collections.
The Louvre Pyramid creates a modern entrance to a historic palace
I. M. Pei's glass pyramid reorganized the Louvre's entrance around a bright underground hall. Its geometry creates a deliberate contrast with the ornate palace facades surrounding the courtyard.
Guggenheim Bilbao curves like a metallic landscape
Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao uses sweeping titanium forms beside the Nervión River. The building became closely associated with the city's cultural and economic transformation.
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum balances above the bay
Oscar Niemeyer's circular museum projects outward from a narrow base above Guanabara Bay. A curving red ramp turns the approach into a slow reveal of building, water, and skyline.
Milwaukee Art Museum opens a wing-like sunshade
The museum's Quadracci Pavilion includes a movable brise soleil that opens and closes above the lakefront structure. The daily movement gives the building a changing silhouette.
The Broad wraps its galleries in a porous veil
The Broad in Los Angeles is enclosed by a patterned concrete-and-fiberglass shell. Openings bring filtered daylight inside while giving the downtown building a distinctive textured facade.
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