The Museion is an “open” museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.

The building’s cubic shape is charged with strong visual impact, and the architecture itself is a vehicle of dialog: the front and rear facades are largely transparent, and place the city’s historical center in dialog with some of its more recent areas, as well as with the meadows that flank the Talvera River.

The Museion building presents itself as an equally physical and symbolic links between the two parts of the city. At night these facades become highly suggestive surfaces for the projection of newly commissioned artworks.

The building’s interior spaces are highly fluid: the various levels of museum activity — exhibition and performance areas, didactic workshops, library, cafeteria and shop — aren’t rigidly separated from one another, but are intimately interconnected.

Museion’s notion of itself as a place for the creation of art also finds concrete expression in the nearby atelier, constructed for the housing and creative activities of artists in residence.