Sometimes I wonder if I bang on about art museums too much.
So today, I’m going to talk about another one. But not for the art, for the architecture.
The Paul Klee Museum in Bern was designed by Renzo Piano, who, I must confess, I’d never heard of until a visit to the Lingotto in Turin last year.
The museum is located next to the main Zurich -Geneva motorway, which certainly livens up the journey as one passes it.
The downside is that you can’t step back very far to take in the perspective…
Piano’s idea was to build “the leading centre of competence worldwide for research into and the mediation and presentation of Paul Klee… a platform for interdisciplinary forms of artistic expression”.
I’m not sure how many centres compete along those terms so he’s probably achieved his goal.
The museum was built to house around 4,000 pieces of Klee’s art, which is a lot in anyone’s book.
So, regardless whether you enjoy art or architecture, or more probably both, the Klee museum is a great place to visit.
The wave form is certainly distinctive, and for those of you on the other side of the water, is said to echo elements of Piano’s work on the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, TX.
Zentrum Paul Klee
Monument im Fruchtland 3
Postfach
3000 Bern 31
Switzerland
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