Find Your Muse

1. Niterói Contemporary Art Museum

2. Museum of Tomorrow

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The Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow) is an impressive science museum built next to the waterfront at Pier Maua. Designed by Spanish neo-futuristic architect Santiago Calatrava, the museum addresses the future of the planet both in art and architecture, using water from the bay to regulate the temperature inside the building.

3. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

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Los Angeles, United States of America

The renovated and expanded 1939 May Company department store, now renamed the Saban Building, was designed by Pritzker Prizewinning architect Renzo Piano and completed in 2021. Dedicated to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking, the building is adjoined by a soaring new glass-and-concrete sphere, featuring a terrace with sweeping views over the Hollywood Hills

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54' 29" S, 43° 7’ 33" W Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Perched atop a cliff overlooking Guanabara Bay, with 360-degree views of Sugar-Loaf Mountain, is Oscar Niemeyer’s iconic saucer-shaped art gallery, embodying his signature simple elegance in the lightness of the curve.

4. Royal Ontario Museum

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40' 4" N, 79° 23' 41" W Toronto, Canada

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), originally built in 1912, is the largest museum in Canada. Its 2007 extension, the Michael Lee-Chin 'Crystal', was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind and features a dramatic, angular design made up of five interlocking prismatic volumes clad in glass and aluminium. Controversial due to its modernist design, which was seen as a departure from the museum's original Beaux-Arts architecture, some criticised the building for not harmonising with the existing structure, while others praised its innovative boldness.

6. Sydney Modern

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Sydney, Australia

Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA have designed a new standalone home for art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales overlooking Sydney Harbour. Regarded as the most significant cultural development in the city since the opening of the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Modern Project, which opened in December 2022, brings together art, architecture, and landscape in spectacular and sustainable ways.

5. Grand Egyptian Museum

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59' 37" N, 31° 7' 11" E Giza, Egypt

The Grand Egyptian Museum, also known as the Giza Museum, is an archaeological museum on the Giza Plateau set to open early 2023. It will house artifacts of ancient Egypt, including the complete Tutankhamun collection, and will be the largest archaeological museum in the world.

AN ARTIST'S DALLIANCE WITH A SUMMER ABROAD