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Seven of the Best Modern Art Museums Worldwide

Jeremy Sudibyo by Jeremy Sudibyo
April 4, 2017 - Updated on July 3, 2020
in Art, Culture
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This post was updated by Neesha Kanagarajah on 15/06/2020.

Modern art ranges from Impressionism to Suprematism, and all the abstractions in between. It’s beautiful, ugly, contemplative, meaningless, and sometimes jarringly confrontational โ€“ it’s not a one-size-fits-all art movement. If you’re part of the modern art camp, you simply have to visit one of these seven best modern art museums, with some postmodern and contemporary thrown into the mix!

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  • 1. MoMA, New York
  • 2. Centre Pompidou Paris (and Mรกlaga!)
  • 3. SFMoMA, San Francisco
  • 4. Tate Modern, London
  • 5. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 6. mumok, Vienna
  • 7. Reina Sofia, Madrid

1. MoMA, New York

The world-famous MoMA in New York tops our list of best modern art museums. With the worldโ€™s most impressive and comprehensive collection of modern art, it should be on top of your list too!

Visit the MoMA to get a crash course in modern art history โ€“ from Magritte to Mondrian, and Bacon to Boccioni, the best of the Modernists can be found here. Just in it for the best modern art paintings in the MoMA? Zoom past the collection and head straight over to see Van Goghโ€™s Starry Night and Picassoโ€™s Les Demoiselles dโ€™Avignon.

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โ€œOne night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.โ€ โ€“ Jasper John

For more inspiration on what to see at MoMA, check out our MoMA highlights guide to explore one of the worldโ€™s premier modern art museums.

2. Centre Pompidou Paris (and Mรกlaga!)

To some, the Centre Pompidou is a beautiful design; to others, the modern and contemporary art center looks like a huge plumbing system. But one thing is certain: if you open your mind to the innovate art inside as much as to the bold exterior design, you will get the most out of your visit to the Centre Pompidou.

The Centre Pompidou Mรกlaga might not be as big as its older sibling in Paris, but itโ€™s every bit as good. Bearing the same name and prestige as what is arguably Europeโ€™s best modern art museum, with a further exploration of the contemporary, it houses artworks from Magritte, Bacon, and Picasso โ€“ all the Modernist must-sees.

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High-tech sewer or cleverly designed art center?

3. SFMoMA, San Francisco

From the Summer of Love to the first gay rights movement, San Francisco has always been a hotbed for countercultures. This progressiveness explains why the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is so good at bringing innovative and challenging modern and contemporary art to the masses.

One of the most revolutionary painters of the 20th century, Jackson Pollock, held his first big exhibition at the SFMoMA. Today, it’s one of the best modern art museums in America that regularly showcases brilliant and undiscovered talent. Plus, just look at that architecture โ€“ it bleeds contemporary!

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The SFMoMA; or ‘Cruise Ship Without Bow or Stern’

4. Tate Modern, London

Londonโ€™s Bankside Power Station is as imposing and iconic as a Rothko painting. Thatโ€™s why since May 2000, the former power plant has been home to Rothkos, Picassos, Braques, Klees, and the national collection of modern art.

Ranging from British art from the early 1900s to the best of present-day international contemporary art, the museum has by far the best collection of modern art in the UK. And, like most museums in London, much of it is free of admission charge. The Tate Modern only charges a fee for major temporary exhibitions โ€” because, hey, institutionalized art is costly.

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Occupying the space of an industrial building, the Tate Modern proves artists don’t live in ivory towers.

5. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

With a collection of high-profile art movements like Piet Mondrian’s De Stijl and Karel Appel’s CoBrA, and a brilliant focus on design and furniture, a visit to the Stedelijk gives you a new perspective on modern art that you wonโ€™t find in many other modern art museums.

And itโ€™s not just curious and unusual art styles that youโ€™ll find inside this intriguing building. The Stedelijk Museum has all the important names and defining art movements of the past two centuries on display. See art from the likes of Matisse, Chagall, Kandinsky, and Picasso โ€“ delineating everything early modern art movements like Impressionism up to the golden days of Expressionism.

Art or design; and what’s the difference when it looks like this?

Bonus tip for visiting modern art museums in Amsterdam!

With the two more of the best museums in Amsterdam just minutes away from the Stedelijk, pair your day of exploring modern art with the grandeur of the Dutch Masters โ€“ Rembrandt, Vermeer, Steen, and many others โ€“ in the Rijksmuseum. Or, delve further into the branches of the modern art movement and see the most comprehensive collection of Van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum.

6. mumok, Vienna

Maybe you havenโ€™t heard of Viennaโ€™s modern art museum yet, but you certainly wonโ€™t forget the mumok once youโ€™ve been there. The Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation (mumok) is dedicated to a very unusual type of art: Actionism.

Also known as Viennese Actionism, this short-lived movement produced some of the most violent and in-your-face art of the 20th century. Visit the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation to get blown away by the works of avant-garde Austrian artists who were fed up with commodifiable art and the high materialism of Viennese society of the 1960s and 1970s.

Visit one of Vienna’s best modern art museums for a day of thought-provoking and definitely NSFW art

7. Reina Sofia, Madrid

If you havenโ€™t been to the Reina Sofia yet, let this word sink in: Guernica. Picassoโ€™s masterpiece is one of the most powerful artworks of the 20th century โ€“ not only because of its immense size but also because of its statement against the Spanish civil war, as told through the depiction of the obliterated town of Guernica in the Basque Country.

The Reina Sofia is widely considered one of the best modern art museums in the world. It is also conveniently located in Madrid’s Golden Triangle of Art, which is home to some of the most popular museums in Spain including the Thyssen-Bornemisza and del Prado.

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One of the most formidable anti-war paintings in history in housed in Madrid’s marvelous modern art museum

Cross off these seven bucket-list modern art museums from your travel itinerary, and if you’re planning to visit the world’s best museums โ€“ modern, classical, or otherwise โ€“ read up on everything art and culture-related on our blog!

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Jeremy Sudibyo

Jeremy Sudibyo

Jeremy grew up fantasizing about the exotic Indonesian archipelago while living near a Dutch stretch of gloomy North Sea coastline. He joined the Tiqets team to hone his creative writing skills โ€” and to launch a blog. He succeeded in the latter!

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