Art was always a great source of inspiration and today it is one of the most important functions. Do you like modern art museums? Of course we can find many amazing things there but we’ve decided to go outside and find the most inspirational exterior architectural designs of the world famous art museums. Hope you’ll like them all as well.

The Denver Art Museum is an art museum in Denver, Colorado (DUH!). New design of the building was created by Studio Daniel Libeskind and Denver company named Davis Partnership Architects. As you can see this concept design is based on shape irregularities and changing vectors. Pretty impressive and spectacular exterior design makes this building one of the most remarkable sights in Colorado.



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Lentos Art Museum is situated in City of Linz, Austria. Zurich architects Weber & Hofer are the authors of this building design. Despite 130 meter long building 8000 m2 of useful area this museum looks very airy and coherent. Transparent glass casing attractively glows at night making this building one of the sights in the town.



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The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is located on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. One of the best buildings in the world is the part of museum complex and it is called Quadracci Pavilion,designed by Santiago Calatrava. This project simply erases boundaries between engineering, sculpture and architecture. According the Wikipedia “the structure contains a movable, wing-like brise soleil which opens up for a wingspan of 217 feet during the day, folding over the tall, arched structure at night or during inclement weather.”



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