!!!Museumsquartier

Museum Quarter, cultural centre for contemporary art with an area of 
45,000 m%%sup 2/% on the site of the former Vienna court stables 
(Hofstallungen) in the vicinity of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and 
the Museum of Natural History. In 1991 a contest among architects was 
carried out for this purpose, which was won by L.  Ortner. The Museum 
Quarter comprises an art gallery and a multi-purpose hall as well as 
numerous other cultural facilities. The R.  Leopold Collection, with 
works of art from the turn of the century and from the classical 
Modern movement as well as the  Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation 
Vienna are to be transferred to the Museum Quarter. Building began in 
1998 and was completed in the spring of 2001. The court stables were 
built 1719-1723 after plans by J. B.  Fischer von Erlach and were 
used for fairs and exhibitions from 1921-1995 (thus for decades 
referred to as "Messepalast" - "Exhibition 
palace").


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