NEMO Science Museum

This guide to NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam follows architect Renzo Piano's solution to hiding an unsightly harbor tunnel entrance, a ship-shaped, copper-clad building that rises from the water like a prow. You'll hear about Piano's diagnosis of Amsterdam as a city with no piazzas, and how the museum opened in 1997 as newMetropolis, nearly failed, and was reborn as NEMO. Stand on the rooftop terrace, twenty-two meters up, for the view he built the whole thing around.