On your next trip to Chicago check out the new Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. It is truly exceptional!

Designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Renzo Piano, the Modern Wing will provide a new home for the museum’s collection of 20th- and 21st-century art. Now a decade in the making, this 264,000 square-foot building makes the Art Institute the second largest art museum in the United States. The building will house the museum’s world-renowned collections of  modern European painting and sculpture, contemporary art, architecture and design and photography The extraordinary scope and quality of these collections will be a revelation; each will be displayed more comprehensively than ever before. The opening of the Modern Wing will allow the Art Institute to take its rightful place as one of the world’s great collections of modern and contemporary art.

According to the  Financial Time’s Travel Unravelled, the  AIC’s new Modern Wing “is a building to rival the outstanding art collection it’s been built to house.”

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