Museum Küppersmühle is a Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art based Duisburg

Duisburg

- History :A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus holds that Duisburg, was built by the eponymous Tuisto, mythical progenitor of Germans, ca. 2395 BC...

's Inner Harbour

Duisburg Inner Harbour

The Innenhafen in Duisburg, encompassing an area of 89ha., was for over a hundred years, during the high point of the Industrial Revolution, the central harbor and trading point of the town. Since the mid-60s, the importance of the harbour declined and it lay in a disused condition for 20...

. It houses the Ströher Collection. It is part of the Duisburg: Town and Harbour

Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail – Duisburg: Town and Harbour

Duisburg: Town and Harbour is the Theme Route No. 1 of The Industrial Heritage Trail, which passes through Duisburg, the Inner Harbour, Ruhrort, the Duisburg-Ruhrorter harbour and other attractions on the Rhine and Ruhr.- Tour 1: Hafenpfad Inner :...

 section of the Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail

The Industrial Heritage Trail

The Industrial Heritage Trail links tourist attractions related to the industrial heritage in the Ruhr area in Germany. It is a part of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.-The route:...

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Architecture

Based in a fomer warehouse, the MKM was opened in April 1999. The building was redesigned by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron Architekten, BSA/SIA/ETH is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog , and Pierre de Meuron , closely paralleled one another, with both attending the Swiss Federal Institute of...

, using a masterplan devised by Norman Foster

Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice, Foster + Partners....

. After gutting the original industrial building an exhibition space of 3,600 m² was created across three storeys. With 6-meter high ceilings, grey Turkish basalt

Basalt

Basalt is a common extrusive volcanic rock. It is usually grey to black and fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava at the surface of a planet. It may be porphyritic containing larger crystals in a fine matrix, or vesicular, or frothy scoria. Unweathered basalt is black or grey...

natural daylight is provided by the ceiling-high window slits. The building is served by an external staircase attached to the original building.

History of the building

The original building was erected in 1860 with extensive redevlopment between 1908–1916. Steel silos were added in the 1930s. In 1969he merger of Werner & Nicola Germania Mühlenwerke with the Küppers Mühlenwerken in Homberg gave rise to the name "Küppersmühle".