Hiroshima Museum of Art

This guide to the Hiroshima Museum of Art follows an unusual brief handed to an architect at Nikken Sekkei a decade before the building opened: fuse the ruined dome of the Atomic Bomb Dome with the covered corridors of Miyajima's floating shrine. It traces Hiroshima Bank's decade of quiet collecting, the squat rotunda visitors nicknamed the muffin, and a bronze Venus by Aristide Maillol set beneath a cupola of falling light. You'll also hear how Picasso's own son planted horse-chestnut trees outside after the 1978 opening. Look up as you step inside, toward where that light lands.