MUSEUMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY PROFILES WORLD'S MOST EXCITING NEW MUSEUMS

Museums in the 21st Century, an incredible new volume from the Art Centre Basel, shows that the world's most exciting new museums are shown to be as inspiring as the works they display. The catalogue accompanies an exhibition by the same name, currently at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark through September 14th. 

The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones. Nearly thirty museums are given close inspection in this generously illustrated volume, edited by Suzanne and Thierry Greub. Each entry includes a discussion of the building’s cultural and geographic environment, complemented by color photographs, sketches, and architectural plans.

The book encompasses four continents and highlights, among others, the designs of Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl, Zaha Hadid, Mario Botta, David Chipperfield, Tadao Ando, Yoshio Taniguchi, and Daniel Libeskind. In addition, the authors provide thoughtful commentary on the relationship between architecture and the fine arts and an assessment of museum functionality in modern times.

Below is a list of remaining locations where this incredible exhibition can be seen:

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
June 20, 2008 – Sept 14, 2008
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo,
Norway | Oct 10, 2008 – Jan 11, 2009
UMMA, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, USA | Feb 6, 2009 – May 3, 2009
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee,
USA | May 29, 2009 – Aug 23, 2009
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Sept 18, 2009 – Jan 3, 2010
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Jan 28, 2010 – April 18, 2010
BMW Museum, Munich, Germany
May 14, 2010 – Aug 22, 2010
MART, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Sept 16, 2010 – Jan 2, 2011
MAS, Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium
Jan 27, 2011 – May 1, 2011
CDAN, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Fundación Beulas,
Huesca, Spain | May 26, 2011 – Aug 21, 2011