Famous LA philanthropists donated $ 28 million to build the museum, for seven and a half thousand works - from Antiquity to the present. The museum building designed by Zaha Hadid

Patrons Edith and Eli Broad amid new Museum at the University of Michigan, designed by Zaha Hadid
Source: artdaily.com

At Michigan State University in East Lansing opened a new museum called Edith and Eli Broad. Famous collectors has long supported the university, alma mater, Eli Broad. The couple donated $ 28 million for the construction of the museum building, designed by architect Zaha Hadid. Total required for the construction of the museum 40 million, of which managed to collect 38.8 million.

New Museum conceived not only as a cultural, but also as an educational center at the university. Modern art on display in the historical context, the exhibition of 7500 covers the world art objects from antiquity to the present day. For example, in a cozy room demonstrates all three works: Italian triptych XIV century, three unknown men Polaroid portraits by Andy Warhol of authorship and a huge triptych of colorful butterflies by Damien Hirst. This argument about the form of a triptych, with the current era of early Christianity and its modern interpretation by artists such as Warhol and Hirst.

Museum, designed by Zaha Hadid, in itself can become a new landmark East Lansing. The original building of glass and stainless steel has a plurality of different angles of windows. They provide a lot of natural light and interesting shadows in the interior of the museum.

This is the second museum, founded under the mediation of famous Los Angeles philanthropists Edith and Eli Broad. The first museum of modern art spouses Broad opened in 2008 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA. In the City of Angels built another Broad Museum, which houses the main part of the collection of the spouses. Construction led architecture firm Diller Scofidio & Renfro.

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

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