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MODERNA MUSEET MALMO

Moderna Museet Malmö

Written by Elsa Brown: Walk down the right street in Malmö, Sweden and you will find the motif of repeating brick architecture interrupted by a bright orange block. This perforated cube is the facade and outer shell of the new Moderna Museet contemporary art museum, designed by Tham & Videgard Arkitekter. The museum was installed in a defunct electric factory, and adapting the building to an exhibition space came with a set of strict requirements to meet climate and security standards for storing and displaying art. The architects’ solution was to create, “a building within a building, a contemporary addition within the existing shell.”

The orange extension holds a reception area, cafeteria and new upper gallery. Inside the museum is entirely white, including the floor on the entry level, which has been glazed to catch sunlight screened through the perforated front. View City Note.

Moderna Museet Malmö