Museum Reinhard Ernst?, one of the late Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki's? final buildings, is revealed in this video produced by Dezeen for ?t?he museum.
Located in Wiesbaden, Germany, the museum takes the form of a large white granite volume, sectioned into smaller rectangular blocks.

Ad | The late Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki designed Museum Reinhard Ernst, his first museum project in Europe.
Located in Wiesbaden, Germany, the museum is dedicated entirely to abstract art and opens to the public with a selection of 60 works on 23 June 2024. pic.twitter.com/0LUoh7YKRq
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The museum opens to the public on 23 June 2024
The 6,000-square-metre facade was given a coarse finish to enhance the granite's texture, and joints were coated with quartz sand to catch the light. Inside the museum, exhibition spaces with green granite flooring were designed to extend continuously without interruption from structural columns.
The museum is dedicated entirely to abstract art and will showcase works from artists like Wolfgang Tillmans, Helen Frankenthaler and Katharina Grosse.
The use of white granite references the limestone used in the surrounding neighbourhood
Museum Reinhard Ernst described the building as a Gesamtkunstwerk ? a German term that translates to a "total work of art".
Maki studied the museum's collection extensively, as well as the surrounding neighbourhood, while creating the design of the structure, and art pieces are incorpor...