Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Art museum in Löwenbräukunst district, Zürich, Switzerland.
The Migros Museum of Contemporary Art is an art museum in Zürich dedicated to contemporary artistic work that occupies space across multiple levels. The venue hosts rotating exhibitions featuring painting, sculpture, photography, and video installations.
The museum's predecessor, the Halle für Internationale neue Kunst, occupied an industrial building from 1978 to 1981. After its demolition, exhibitions continued at the Kunsthaus Zürich (1984), the Musée Rath in Geneva (1986) and the Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano (1994). The present museum opened on 4 May 1996 on the Löwenbräu site, funded by Migros's Kulturprozent.
The museum presents works by contemporary artists from around the world through rotating exhibitions that showcase different artistic approaches. The collection reflects current creative conversations and invites visitors to encounter new perspectives on art today.
The museum occupies the converted Löwenbräu-Areal at Limmatstrasse 270 in Kreis 5, a listed industrial site shared with other art institutions. It has two floors of roughly 1,300 m², one for the collection and one for temporary exhibitions. The building was renovated between 2010 and 2012 and reopened on 31 August 2012.
The museum's collection began in 1957, when Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler, on the advice of Hermann Gattinger, started buying works by Swiss artists, some of which first hung as decoration in Migros offices. The collection now holds over 1300 works by 700 artists, and most new acquisitions come directly out of the museum's own exhibitions.
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