Museum Frieder Burda, Art museum in Baden-Baden, Germany
Museum Frieder Burda is a white, rectangular building by Richard Meier, clad in a grid of flat light grey panels, with tall glass sections and cylindrical columns at ground level. A dark wall in front of the glass bears the museum's name. Inside are two large halls, two cabinets and a basement, reached by ramps across three floors.
Frieder Burda founded the Stiftung Frieder Burda in 1998 to preserve his collection and open it to the public; he first planned a museum in Mougins, Picasso's last home, but chose his own primary residence, Baden-Baden. Richard Meier's building opened in October 2004, cost about 15 million euros and was financed without public funds, with local architect Peter W. Kruse supervising construction. The opening showed around 150 of the then 550 works in the new building and the neighbouring Kunsthalle.
The museum's name comes from collector Frieder Burda, who founded the Stiftung Frieder Burda in 1998 and opened the building in 2004. Since 2016 a branch, the Berliner Salon, has occupied the former Jewish girls' school on Auguststrasse in Berlin, run by his stepdaughter Patricia Kamp. The two museums in Baden-Baden stage joint exhibitions that run across both buildings.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, with guided tours available by advance reservation. It sits within Lichtentaler Allee Park and is easily reached on foot.
The glass bridge links Richard Meier's 2004 building with the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, housed in Hermann Billing's building about a century older. The two museums stage joint exhibitions that run across both buildings, so one ticket can cover two very different sequences of rooms.
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