Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

About this audio guide

This guide to the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art follows architect Adrien Fainsilber's design for a building that looks like two structures fused together, a glass wall etched with the Fibonacci sequence in neon facing Petite France, and an almost windowless face turned toward the river Ill. You'll hear how the site itself has a stranger past, home to the city's municipal slaughterhouses before construction ran from 1995 to 1998. It traces the museum's interior street, a glazed nave over a hundred meters long, and asks you to picture what once queued where visitors now walk. Look up at the roofline outside for the bronze horse rearing above the entrance.