Sunday, August 8, 2021

Museum Buildings Around the World

 

ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN

22 of the Most Interesting Museum Buildings Around the World

These structures are just as intriguing as the collections they house
22 of the Most Interesting Museum Buildings Around the World
Image courtesy Of Wikimedia Commons.

There's an old adage that states it's only what's inside that matters, but the saying doesn't quite apply to museum buildings—or at least it shouldn't. Any good museum worth its salt knows that if it intends to captivate and enchant its visitors with its collections and exhibitions, the inspiration should spark long before they walk through the front doors. The buildings on this list blur the line between art and architecture; they're structures that look unlike anything to have come before. Of course, some—like Thomas Heatherwick's Zeitz MOCCA or the to-be-built Herzog & de Meuron–designed new Vancouver Art Gallery—are stunning examples of contemporary architecture, while other structures such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum have stood the test of time. At once full of wonder and intrigue in addition to pure beauty, the institutions on this list are just as enchanting as the collections they exhibit inside.

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    Photo by View Pictures/UIG via Getty Images.
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    Ordos Museum—Ordos, China

  • a triangularly shaped building with a sharp edge
    Photo by Maciej Lulko.
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    Denver Art Museum—Denver, Colorado

  • a car zooming past a building with one small circular window in the center
    FG/Bauer-Griffin
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    The Broad—Los Angeles, California

    LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 29: Exterior view of the Broad Museum on Grand Avenue on September 29, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by FG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

  • a building
    Photo by Dennis Jarvis.
    4/22

    Royal Ontario Museum—Ontario, Canada

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    Photo by chesnot/Corbis via Getty Images.
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    Fondation Louis Vuitton—Paris, France

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    Photo by: Hermes Images/AGF/UIG via Getty Images.
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    Museum of Islamic Art—Doha, Qatar

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    Photo by: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images.
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    Salvador Dalí Museum—St. Petersburg, Florida

    Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida. (Photo by: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images)

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    Photo by: Bildagentur-online/UIG via Getty Images.
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    Niterói Contemporary Art Museum—Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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    Photo by: Hufton+Crow/View Pictures/UIG via Getty Images.
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    Messner Mountain Museum—Corones, Italy

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    Photo by Gary Porter. Courtesy Getty Images.
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    Milwaukee Art Museum—Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Photo by Michael Jacobs/Art in All of Us. Image courtesy of Getty Images.
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    Museum aan de Stroom—Antwerp, Belgium

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    Photo by Mairo Cinquetti/NurPhoto via Getty Images.
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    Metropol Parasol—Seville, Spain

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    Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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    Design Museum Holon—Holon, Israel

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    Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images.
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    Museo Soumaya—Mexico City, Mexico

  • allwhite exterior of the Guggenheim Museum in front of busy new york traffic
    Photo: Getty Images/robertcicchetti
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    Guggenheim Museum—New York City, New York

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    Rendering courtesy of Vancouver Art Gallery.
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    Vancouver Art Gallery—Vancouver, Canada

    Herzog & de Meuron.

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    Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images.
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    ArtsSciences Museum—Singapore

  • Image may contain Architecture Building Convention Center Human Person Urban Town City and Metropolis
    Photo by Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images.
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    Museo Guggenheim Bilbao—Bilbao, Spain

  • Image may contain Roof Building Architecture Human Person Dome and Convention Center
    Image courtesy Of Wikimedia Commons.
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    Kunsthaus Graz—Graz, Austria

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    Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of Alberta.
    20/22

    Art Gallery of Alberta—Alberta, Canada

  • large concrete structure with glass on top
    Photo: Iwan Baan
    21/22

    Zeitz MOCAA—Cape Town, South Africa

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    Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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    Weisman Art Museum—Minneapolis, Minnesota





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