Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig

In the location's words:

The mumok - Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna is a federal museum in the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna's 7th district Neubau and is considered the largest museum of modern and contemporary art in Central Europe. The striking building - a dark gray cube made of basalt lava - was designed by the architects Ortner & Ortner and opened in September 2001. It offers around 4,800 m² of exhibition space.

The mumok collection comprises works by around 1,600 artists and spans an impressive range from classical modernism - with works of Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism - to the art movements of the 1960s and 1970s such as Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Minimal Art, Conceptual Art and Viennese Actionism, through to current contemporary art, including film and video art.

In addition to the permanent collection, the mumok regularly shows monographic and thematic temporary exhibitions and sees itself as a lively place for discourse on art since modernism. The collection is largely based on donations from the collector couple Peter and Irene Ludwig, after whom the associated foundation is named.