The People Have Spoken!

Hit or miss – we asked our Facebook crowd what they thought of the new museum only to be avalanched by priceless replies…

Paweł

“The Guggenheim is imaginative. The Louvre’s Abu Dhabi branch is imaginative. Heck, even the Tate Modern is an imaginative take on a factory building. Having a shoebox just doesn’t cut it.”

Alex

“In many ways, this is why I love Warsaw – it’s an architectural mess in terms of styles, sizes, shapes and form, but is that really such a bad thing? It’s definitely not boring to look at!”

Andrew

“It’s bold, distinctive and has clearly got people talking. Bravo to Warsaw for trying something different.”

Norbert

“Modern art is no longer art. They produce crap and call it art. We live in an idiocracy.”

Milida

“This looks like a run-of-the-mill American warehouse.”

Tom

“A soulless, cuboid – like every other building that passes for modern architecture. By contrast, take a look at the Natural History Museum in London. Our great, great grandfathers’ generation knew how to build beautifully, so why does ours insist on erecting a giant portacabin in the middle of our capital?”

Pablo

“There’s nothing controversial about this project – it’s got a beautiful, simple shape. Haters gonna’ hate!”

Ola

“It’s the ugliest thing I’ve seen in my ENTIRE life!”

Ewa

“It’s a very beautiful building and it will become an icon of Warsaw. The presence of the Palace of Culture forced something simple and understated - imagine Guggenheim’s Bilbao building in front of it!”

Mikael

“I can’t believe anyone actually agreed to build this monstrosity – how you can you not see that it does not fit and looks hilarious? I’d love to know how the decision process was handled…”

Cody

“Although I dislike modern art and architecture, at the end day this is a modern art museum and the building should have a modern aesthetic to reflect that.”

Maggie

“It should never have been put there – a park, trees and a social space would have been just fine. The way the project was handled has been a joke, like most things in Poland at the moment.”

Our Favorite Comment

Izabela

“The public often loves to hate new buildings. They are usually composed of innovative materials, take a new form, and ‘clash’ with their surroundings. However, after the dust settles they become admired and recognized for their imaginative style, putting the city on an architectural world map. This happened with the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Guggenheim Museum, and even Louvre Pyramid, which was built in complete opposition to the Renaissance style of the historic palace. It seems that Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art is going through the same process.

Tom

“If you have to explain why a building is beautiful then it isn’t beautiful.”

Most people feel comfortable with what they already know and are afraid of the new and unknown. Simultaneously, most people forget that this new building is a museum of MODERN art, not a museum of social realism. In my opinion Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art is an excellent example of what we understand as modern – relating to the present times as opposed to the remote past.”