Museums of Modern Art as highly valuable architecture

Visiting Nice, France this holidays, I attended The Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Nice. The permanent collection is rich, it has its own spirit and it could attractive for artists, designers, and ordinary tourists. Temporary collections also present amazing artists and their inspiring works as usual. For example, Klein,Byars,Kapoor or Matisse exhibitions, the ones, I had a chance to visit. But the thing, that attracts me more is the outlook of the building itself, its smart design of exhibition rooms.

The architects Yves Bayard and Henri Vidal proposed a very original tetrapod arch with one part on a Paillon side and the other on the axe of the old National 7, between the harbor and the old city with districts developed during the 19th and 20th centuries. The architecture of the museum had to satisfy two components of Nice's urbanism : the urbanism planning and the exotic utopia of the "Belle Epoque".The monumental image inspired by the principles of Classicism (square plan, arches) are perfectly corresponding to the Garibaldi Square conception. The diverse tons of red-ochre, the wonderful surfaces in Carrara marble, the olive trees nearby give to the city center the feeling of order and peace of the Mediterranean nature. The "Paillon Couverture" in the center of the city is including a museum and a theatre, which form an ensemble called "Promenade des Arts". I like an idea if constructing the tetras, that are considering points where people can have a wonderful overview of the town.

This type of highly architectural valuable projects which could be managed only with state resources, financial  support for such cultural development. The MAXI Museum of Modern Art in Rome, with which we all are already familiar, deals with financial problems nowadays, and could probably be closed. We should keep up the tendency of developing such cultural centers such as Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Nice, MAXI museum in Rome, Tate Gallery in London, or Center of Georges-Pompidou in Paris etch. ,the ones that giving so much energy to us.

By Svetlana Morgoshiya