Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Modern art museum on a Danube peninsula south of Bratislava, with a riverside sculpture park.
Danubiana stands on a narrow peninsula reaching into the Danube at Cunovo, some sixteen kilometres downstream from central Bratislava and close to the Slovak-Hungarian border. It was founded by the Slovak gallerist Vincent Polakovic with the Dutch collector and industrialist Gerard Meulensteen, and opened in September 2000. The Czech architects Zdenek Holzel and Jan Kerel gave the building a low, ship-like form, and a large extension completed in 2014 roughly doubled the exhibition space.
The museum concentrates on modern and contemporary art, showing its own growing collection alongside a busy programme of temporary exhibitions by Slovak and international artists. Water surrounds the site on three sides, and the roof terrace and surrounding meadow serve as an open-air sculpture park with works by artists including Karel Appel and Jean-Michel Folon. A cafe, art shop and the ART POINT space complete the complex, which is reached by road, cycle path or seasonal boat from the city.
Highlights
- Ship-like building on a peninsula in the Danube
- Open-air sculpture park on the roof and meadow
- Collection of modern and contemporary art
- 2014 extension that doubled the gallery space
