The Met Breuer, Art museum at Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, New York, US
The Met Breuer is an art museum on Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York, which was housed in a geometric concrete building with asymmetrical windows across six floors. The facade of concrete and granite gave the building a distinctive appearance among the surrounding residential blocks.
Architect Marcel Breuer designed the building in 1966 for the Whitney Museum, which was based there until 2015. The Metropolitan Museum then took over the space and used it for rotating exhibitions until returning it to the Whitney in 2023.
The building carries the name of its architect and once served American art before offering space for modern works from around the world. Visitors could walk through rooms that showed contemporary perspectives and opened dialogues between different decades.
Visitors could enter the museum with the same ticket valid for the Metropolitan Museum, making both locations accessible in one day. The entrance hall was directly connected to a bridge on Madison Avenue.
The sculptural concrete staircases ran through the interior and remained preserved in their original state. An entrance bridge connected the street to the first floor and gave the access an unusual appearance.
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