The 25 Best Museum Buildings of the Past 100 Years – ARTnews

What makes a great museum?Its about more than just the art inside its wallsits also those walls themselves, which are meant to work in service of whats on view. As many architects have realized over the years, museum buildings can, if anything, function like artworks themselves, as objects for appreciation. In some cases, these buildings have become justas identifiable as the masterpieces in museums collections.

This list collects some of the most important museum buildings of the past 100 years. It includes influential modernist experiments and polarizing postmodern expansions, architectural oddities and beloved additions, circular museums and glassed-in pyramids. These structures proposed strange, new possibilities for how a museum ought to lookand, in some cases, changed the cultural landscape altogether. In the past few decades alone, spurred by Frank Gehrys Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, theres been a museum boom that caused architects to push their practices in new directions, and while the momentum of that boom has died down, its energy lives on.

From a space resembling a hovering spaceship to an institution shaped like an unrolled carpet, these are the 25 best museums since 1922.

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The 25 Best Museum Buildings of the Past 100 Years - ARTnews