Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a major art museum founded in 1879 by Thomas Barlow Walker; it has occupied its current site since 1927. As the first public art museum in the upper Midwest, it holds a collection that, thanks to later donations, also includes modern works by artists such as Picasso, Moore, and Giacometti. On the large grounds, you can take in not only the exhibitions but also a sculpture garden. An architectural highlight is the expansion carried out between 1999 and 2005 by Herzog & de Meuron, which attaches a floating, metal-clad cube to the historic brick building. This multifunctional cultural center links old and new structures through a glass gallery and offers a theater in addition to bright exhibition spaces.