> Source: https://worldmuseumguide.org/types/modern-contemporary/. Markdown mirror generated at build time from the same content as the HTML page. Title: Modern & Contemporary Art — Best Museums & Visitor Guide # Modern & Contemporary Art Dedicated to twentieth- and twenty-first-century art — Impressionism through digital practice. MoMA, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou define the contemporary canon. 16 museums in this category ## Quick answer World Museum Guide lists 16modern & contemporary art worldwide — leading institutions include Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou — each with a full guide to admission, opening hours, and must-see highlights, so you can pick the right one for your trip. ## Visiting tip Allow time to experience the architecture, not just the art. Contemporary museums are often spatially generous. ## Leading institutions [![Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)](https://worldmuseumguide.org/images/moma.webp) New York City, United States Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) ⏱ 2–4 hours](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/moma/) · [![Tate Modern](https://worldmuseumguide.org/images/tate-modern.webp) London, United Kingdom Tate Modern ⏱ 2–3 hours](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/tate-modern/) · [![Centre Pompidou](https://worldmuseumguide.org/images/centre-pompidou.webp) Paris, France Centre Pompidou ⏱ 2–3 hours](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/centre-pompidou/) · [![Guggenheim Museum Bilbao](https://worldmuseumguide.org/images/guggenheim.webp) Bilbao, Spain Guggenheim Museum Bilbao ⏱ 2–3 hours](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/guggenheim-bilbao/) · [![Whitney Museum of American Art](https://worldmuseumguide.org/images/whitney-museum.webp) New York City, United States Whitney Museum of American Art ⏱ 2–3 hours](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/whitney-museum/) ## All modern & contemporary art [Yogyakarta, Indonesia Affandi Museum The Affandi Museum preserves the riverside home, studio and galleries of Affandi (1907–1990), Indonesia's best-known expressionist painter, on Jalan Laksda Adisucipto east of central Yogyakarta. Its leaf-roofed galleries show his paintings, car and bicycle alongside works by his family, and Affandi is buried in the grounds.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/affandi-museum/) · [Paris, France Centre Pompidou Designed by Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Gianfranco Franchini, the Centre Pompidou turned the museum building inside out — exposing pipes, ducts, and escalators on its colourful facade. It opened in 1977 and remains one of the most influential pieces of late twentieth-century architecture.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/centre-pompidou/) · [Bilbao, Spain Guggenheim Museum Bilbao The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain, with an exhibition of 250 contemporary works of art.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/guggenheim-bilbao/) · [Brumadinho, Brazil Inhotim One of the world's largest open-air contemporary art museums — a 5,000-acre botanical garden and art complex in Minas Gerais with pavilions by artists including Tunga, Hélio Oiticica, and Adriana Varejão.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/inhotim/) · [Humlebæk, Denmark Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Louisiana opened in 1958 in a 19th-century villa at Humlebæk, 35 kilometres north of Copenhagen on the coast of the Øresund strait. The museum grew organically over decades, with interconnected whitewashed gallery wings threading through the landscape of the clifftop park — creating one of the most harmonious relationships between art, architecture, and nature of any museum in the world.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/louisiana-museum-of-modern-art/) · [Doha, Qatar Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art opened in 2010 in Doha's Education City, housed in a former school building redesigned by French architect Jean-François Bodin. It holds the world's largest specialised collection of modern and contemporary Arab art. Free](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/mathaf-arab-museum-of-modern-art/) · [Mexico City, Mexico Museo Jumex Latin America's leading private contemporary art museum in Polanco — the Colección Jumex spans Pop Art, Minimalism, and contemporary Latin American artists in a David Chipperfield building.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/museo-jumex/) · [Jakarta, Indonesia Museum MACAN Museum MACAN (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara) opened in West Jakarta in November 2017 as the first museum in Indonesia to give public access to a major collection of modern and contemporary art from Indonesia and abroad. It stages rotating exhibitions in its galleries on Level M of AKR Tower.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/museum-macan/) · [New York City, United States Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/moma/) · [Hobart, Australia Museum of Old and New Art MONA — David Walsh's subterranean museum on the Berriedale peninsula, accessible by ferry from Hobart. Provocative contemporary art, antiquities, and Australia's most debated private collection.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/museum-of-old-and-new-art/) · [Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia National Art Gallery Malaysia The National Art Gallery of Malaysia (Balai Seni Negara), founded in 1958, holds the national collection of modern and contemporary Malaysian art. Entry is free at its gallery on Jalan Temerloh, off Jalan Tun Razak, next to Istana Budaya. Free](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/national-art-gallery-malaysia/) · [Tokyo, Japan National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Founded in 1952, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) was Japan's first national art museum. Its current building by Yoshiro Taniguchi opened in 1969 in Kitanomaru Park beside the Imperial Palace moat and was renovated in 2002.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/momat-tokyo/) · [San Francisco, United States San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Founded in 1935, SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast dedicated to modern art. Its 2016 expansion — designed by Snøhetta — nearly tripled its size to 170,000 square feet of gallery space, making it one of the largest modern art museums in the United States.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/sfmoma/) · [London, United Kingdom Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art created from 1900 to the present day. It is part of the Tate group, together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives. Free](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/tate-modern/) · [Los Angeles, United States The Broad A contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, housing the Eli and Edythe Broad collection — Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room, Basquiat, Koons, and post-war American art. Free](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/the-broad/) · [New York City, United States Whitney Museum of American Art Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the museum in 1930 with her own collection of works by then-overlooked American artists. The museum moved into Renzo Piano's stepped building beside the High Line in 2015.](https://worldmuseumguide.org/museums/whitney-museum/) ## Common questions ### What is a modern & contemporary art? Dedicated to twentieth- and twenty-first-century art — Impressionism through digital practice. MoMA, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou define the contemporary canon. ### Which modern & contemporary art should I visit first? Allow time to experience the architecture, not just the art. Contemporary museums are often spatially generous. Our guides cover 16 modern & contemporary art on World Museum Guide. ### How many modern & contemporary art are in the directory? 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