After four years of construction, the extension to the Küppersmühle Museum in Duisburg, Germany, has been completed: the annex, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, takes its cue from the existing building – a historic grain mill converted into a museum in 1999 by the same Basel-based firm.
Herzog & de Meuron complete Küppersmühle Museum extension
The German Museum of Modern Art reopens to the public with 36 new exhibition rooms and 300 works from the Ströher Collection: the annex block takes its cue from the existing building, a 1999 project by the Basel studio.
Photo © MKM Duisburg / Herzog & de Meuron
© Simon Menges
Staircase, detail.
Photo © MKM Duisburg / Herzog & de Meuron
© Simon Menges
Staircase.
Photo © MKM Duisburg / Herzog & de Meuron
© Simon Menges
Photo © MKM Duisburg / Herzog & de Meuron
© Simon Menges
Silos view.
Photo © MKM Duisburg / Herzog & de Meuron
© Simon Menges
Installation view. Brigitte and Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff (sculpture)
(r.) David Schnell
MKM Duisburg / Herzog & de Meuron
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- Francesca Grillo
- 30 September 2021
- Duisburg, Germany
- Herzof & de Meuron
- 2,500 sqm
- Modern art museum
- 2021
The added area of 2,500 sqm accommodates some 300 works from the Ströher Collection, distributed over 36 exhibition rooms complemented by renovated historic silos. The annex has been designed with respect for the existing architecture – a 19th century industrial building: three structures of different heights, clad in red brick, form the new block, which ends in an urban green oasis.
- MKM Museum Küppersmühle, extension
- Duisburg, Germany
- Modern art museum
- Herzog & de Meuron
- Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Robert Hösl (Partner in Charge)
- Roland Schreiber (Project Architect/ Project Manager) Mikolaj Bazaczek, Juliane Brantner, Teodor-Octavian Cuciureanu, Florian Hartmann, Sebastian Hefti, Māra Igaune, Susanne Kozlowski, Hannah Reusser, Daniel Schürer
- 2,500 sqm
- 2021
© Simon Menges
2021 extension.
© Simon Menges
2021 extension.
Staircase, detail.
© Simon Menges
2021 extension.
Staircase.
© Simon Menges
2021 extension.
© Simon Menges
2021 extension.
Silos view.
© für die Arbeit von David Schnell: Der Künstler und VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2021
© Photo Simon Menges
2021 extension.
Installation view. Brigitte and Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff (sculpture)
(r.) David Schnell