Modern art museums Modern art museums ARKEN Museum of Modern Art ( Danish: ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst) is a private self owning, but state authorised, new art museum near the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen. The museum is conceived and created by Copenhagen County. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arken Museum of Modern Art"
The Art Car Museum is a private museum of contemporary art located in Houston, Texas. The museum, nicknamed the "Garage Mahal," opened in February, 1988. Its emphasis is on art cars, fine arts, and artists that are rarely seen in other cultural institutions. The museum's mission is to elevate awareness of the political, economic, and personal dimensions of art. ...more on Wikipedia about "Art Car Museum"
The Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971– 1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a building in the Beaubourg area of the IVe arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles and the Marais. Designed by Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, it houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information, a vast public library, and the Musée National d'Art Moderne. Because of its location, the Centre is known locally as Beaubourg. ...more on Wikipedia about "Centre Georges Pompidou"
The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is the City of Glasgow's main gallery of contemporary art. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow"
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a modern and contemporary art museum located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guggenheim Museum Bilbao"
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, also known as IMMA, opened in May 1991 and is Ireland's leading national institution exhibiting and collecting modern and contemporary art. It is located in the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, a fine 17th-century building near Heuston Station to the west of Dublin's city centre. The current director is Enrique Juncosa, he was previously Deputy Director of the Reina Sofia National Museum of Modern Art (MNCARS) in Madrid. Juncosa is only the second director of the IMMA, the first was Declan McGonagle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irish Museum of Modern Art"
Kiasma (constructed 1993– 1998) is the contemporary art museum located in Helsinki, Finland. The architect was the American, Steven Holl, which provoked a storm of outrage at the time since it had widely been expected that it would be designed by one of the many notable Finnish modernist architects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kiasma"
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the arts collection of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located in the state capitol Düsseldorf. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen"
The Lenbachhaus was errected as villa for the painter Franz von Lenbach and is today an art museum of the city of Munich, Germany. The Lenbachhaus is part of Munich's " Kunstareal" (the "art area"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Lenbachhaus"
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is located directly at the shore of the Øresund in Humlebæk about 35 kilometers north of Copenhagen in Denmark. There is a wide range of modern art paintings, sculptures, videos, and installations in the collection, including works by artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Anselm Kiefer, and Pablo Picasso. Perched above the sea, there is a sculpture garden between the museum´s two wings with works by artists including Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, and Jean Arp. ...more on Wikipedia about "Louisiana Museum of Modern Art"
The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art or mima is a flagship art gallery project based in the North of England. The completed gallery, a venue for modern art and craft from 1900 onwards, is due to open in 2006. ...more on Wikipedia about "Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art"
Modern Art Oxford is an art gallery established in 1969 at the University of Oxford. From 1969 to 2002 the gallery was known as The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. The gallery's original founders—a small group of Oxford dons— aspired to build it into a museum with a permanent collection by way of an endowment from the University; Oxford declined, leaving the gallery with a misnomer. With funding from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the gallery survived as a venue for temporary exhibitions. Andrew Nairne renamed the gallery to its current monicker in 2002. ...more on Wikipedia about "Modern Art Oxford"
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum at Petrovka in Moscow, Russia that opened in December 1999. ...more on Wikipedia about "Moscow Museum of Modern Art"
The Musée National d'Art Moderne is the French national modern art museum in Paris, France. It is located within the Centre Georges Pompidou. ...more on Wikipedia about "Musée National d'Art Moderne"
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen is the main art museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum Boymans-van Beuningen"
(MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The museum is often considered a rival to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum of Modern Art"
The National Gallery of Art is an art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1937 by the Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W. Mellon. Samuel H. Kress contributed the museum's original collection of Italian art. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Gallery of Art"
The National Gallery of Canada (French: Musée des beaux arts du Canada), located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Gallery of Canada"
The Pinakothek der Moderne is a modern art museum, situated in the city centre of Munich, Germany. Together with the Alte Pinakothek and the Neue Pinakothek it is part of Munich's " Kunstareal" (the "art area"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Pinakothek der Moderne"
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (or SFMOMA) is a major modern art museum and San Francisco landmark. ...more on Wikipedia about "San Francisco Museum of Modern Art"
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Scotland, holds the national collection of Modern art. When opened in 1960, the collection was held in Inverleith House, at the Royal Botanic Gardens. It moved to its current home in 1980, a Neo Classical building in the west of Edinburgh, near the Water of Leith, originally built as John Watson's Hospital in 1825- 1828 by William Burn. ...more on Wikipedia about "Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art"
Founded in 1937, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is the best-known of several museums founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is often called simply The Guggenheim. It is one of the best-known museums in a section of Manhattan referred to as Museum Mile. ...more on Wikipedia about "Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum"
Tate Modern is Britain's new national museum of modern art in London and, along with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St. Ives, a part of the Tate Gallery. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tate Modern"
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