Museum im Kulturspeicher

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Since February 2002, the museum is in the cultural memory in the traditional city of Würzburg for the art of modern and contemporary. Emerging from the former Municipal Gallery there is housed in a listed port memory. Built in 1904, impressed the three-story warehouse, especially through his impressive length of 128 meters, which extends through extensions of the architects now on 160 meters. Like a bolt provided with three of the neo-baroque gables tail is parallel to the main memory in an artificial water basin of the former Winter Harbor.

With the conversion to a museum of memory was after years of vacancy and decay, a new use. The offer to give the Berlin collector Peter C. Ruppert, his collection of concrete art in Würzburg, was at the time of the occasion to think about a museum utilization. The then Municipal Gallery, the predecessor of the Museum, offered not enough space, so that kept lookout for larger areas. Further plans for urban redevelopment and upgrading of the Old Port favored the reconstruction of memory and the associated relocation of the gallery.

Today he is, the cultural center in a formerly neglected suburban area, obtained in the art and culture of modernity and present a new location. The largest area in the cultural space occupied by the museum. But who, other cultural memory institutions housed in the cultural life of the city of Würzburg: the restaurant LUMEN, the prestigious cabaret "Bockhorn", the dance space, art studio and gallery BBK. In the back dock since 2007 and anchored by the Kunstverein Würzburg powered ship art ARTE NOAH.

From the architectural competition at that time awarded the Tirschenreuther architect Christian Brückner and Peter went with their definite design idea emerged as the winner. They removed the old memory, the often ailing oak columns and placed on the left and right, a two-storey reinforced concrete cubes in the historical long facades. In this concrete cubes are twelve exhibition rooms, six on each side. They offer a total of 3600 square meters of exhibition space.