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With an architectural history spanning over 3,000 years, Italy holds an incredible legacy. Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, the country has become a global capital of art, culture and religion. Surrounded by monumental contexts, new works of architecture and design must address a myriad of constraints both urban and symbolic in nature. This holds especially true within museums and cultural projects, buildings where heritage and experience are intertwined.
Expanding on our recent travel guide showcasing contemporary building projects across Rome, the following collection takes a closer look at museums sited across Italy. Revealing a kind of contemporary renaissance within their surroundings, each museum looks to break from a historicist mold while simultaneously celebrating novel exhibition methods. Looking beyond the country’s capital, the projects show unique approaches to designing modern works in diverse contexts.
© Marco Zanta
© Marco Zanta
Museo Bailo by studiomas architetti associati, Treviso, Italy
Located in Treviso near Venice, this art museum is housed within a 15th-century monastery building. Showcasing a collection of 20th-century art, the museum was renovated with a new façade and cross-shaped frontage enveloped in polished Marmorino plaster.
© SCAPE
© SCAPE
MEIS – National Italian Judaism and Shoah Museum by SCAPE, Ferrara, Italy
SCAPE’s design for the National Italian Judaism and Shoah Museum explores both monumentality and Hebrew culture. Created as a landscape through which memories run and intertwine, the proposal was made with signs and marks that delineate how the museum engages with the city.
Pythagoras Museum by OBR, Crotone, Italy
OBR’s Pythagoras museum is located on the outskirts of a southern Italian town overlooking the city below. Simultaneously designed for international tourism and to promote the city of Crotone, the museum was conceived as a partially hypo-epigean space integrated into its topography and landscape.
© Krüger Schuberth Vandreike (KSV)
© Krüger Schuberth Vandreike (KSV)
Museion | Museum of Modern Art by Krüger Schuberth Vandreike (KSV), Merano, Italy
Merano’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art was designed with critical simplicity and restraint amongst its context. Located on the edge of the old town of Bolzano, the project includes a new bridge across the River Talvera also designed by KSV.
© Renzo Piano Building Workshop
© Renzo Piano Building Workshop
MUSE and Le Albere in Trento by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Trento, Italy
Renzo Piano’s new Museum of Science in Trento was designed as part of a major urban regeneration plan. Located in an area known as Ex-Michelin, the project explored the hierarchy and functional complexity of both the project and its surroundings.
© Parc Office
© Parc Office
Gucci Museum by PARC Office, Florence, Italy
The Gucci museum was designed within the context of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence. Programmatically, the museum includes both temporary and permanent galleries, as well as archive, café and bookstore space.
© Zaha Hadid Architects
© Zaha Hadid Architects
© Zaha Hadid Architects
Messner Mountain Museum Corones by Zaha Hadid Architects, South Tyrol, Italy
ZHA’s Messner Mountain Museum was designed around mountaineering. Located within the Alpine destination of Mount Kronplatz, the project was informed by the geology and topography of its context. Overlooking the Zillertal Alps, the Dolomites and the Marmolada glacier, the design includes glazed apertures and viewing balconies.
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