Groninger Museum

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The Groninger Museum is an art museum in the Dutch city of Groningen. The by the designer Alessandro Mendini in collaboration with the architect Michele de Lucchi, Philippe Starck and Coop Himmelb (l) au designed building located on an island in the connecting channel of the city. A bridge connects the island to both banks and serves as a connection between the station and city center. The museum is run by the art historian Andreas Blühm since 1 September 2012.

New museum building

The museum director Frans Hak instruct the designer Alessandro Mendini in 1987 to create a concept for a new museum building. The old building in the center of the city had become too small after 100 years of use and Haks wanted a museum that already emphasized by its architecture. He was a gift from the energy company NV Nederlandse Gasunie fall back, which provided 25 million Dutch guilders for the construction of a new museum available to mark the 25th anniversary. The construction phase began in 1992, the museum was opened in 1994.

Division

The museum's collections are made up of the history of Groningen, Chinese and Japanese porcelain, including parts of the collection of Jan Albert Sichterman (1672-1764), crafts and works of art of the 16th - 20th century and contemporary art. The building offers the opportunity to present the various content and how to let correspond with the exterior design by his differently styled pavilions.

The central pavilion with the yellow tower houses the depot and the entrance hall of the museum. A large central spiral staircase leads to showrooms.

The western part is composed of two overlapping pavilions. The lower part of brick was designed by Michele de Lucchi and bears the name Ploeg Pavilion Beringer Hazewinkel. It provides space for the works of the Groningen artists De Ploeg and other northern European expressionists, in other halls the history and archeology of Groningen is presented. The pavilion forms the base for the placed thereon blind with aluminum plates rotunda of Philippe Starck. In this pavilion are the exhibits of arts and crafts and an Asian porcelain, complemented with furniture, special lighting and curtains.

The eastern part of the museum consists of overlapping pavilions, presenting the visual arts. The lower pavilion with a square floor plan was designed by Alessandro Mendini and contains two floors. In the basement of the temporary exhibitions, the upper floor is the exhibition of the museum's holdings. In this pavilion is the Coop Himmelb (l) au designed part made of steel and glass, an example of deconstruction, which forms a strong contrast to the Mendini construction with colorful laminated cover. In this light flooded through the glass surfaces spaces sculptures will be shown mostly.

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