A world-renowned architect
An award-winning landscape design
Mudam was designed by Sino-American, Pritzker Prize–winning architect I. M. Pei.
Ieoh Ming Pei’s work ranks among the most beautiful and important projects of this century.
The architecture of the museum is conceived as a dialogue between the natural and historical context of its site. In its orientation, it forms a link between the past — the former Fort Thüngen and the historic city of Luxembourg — the present, and the future (the European district of Kirchberg). Together with neighbouring cultural institutions such as the Musée Dräi Eechelen, the Philharmonie Luxembourg by Christian de Portzamparc, and the Place de l’Europe by Ricardo Bofill, Mudam stands as an architectural landmark of Luxembourg City.
The building unfolds across three levels, offering 4,000 m² of exhibition and collection space. Its simple volumes and generous spatiality, and the interplay between interior and exterior views onto the surrounding Dräi Eechelen Park, are sheltered beneath an audacious glass canopy. I. M. Pei’s use of the honey-coloured Magny Doré limestone lends the building a distinctive luminosity, animated by subtle shifts of light and shadow across the hours and seasons.
The Dräi Eechelen Park, designed by landscape architect Michel Desvigne, was awarded the Luxembourg Prize for Architecture in 2011. Its minimalist composition of trees and paving gently slopes from the urban Place de l’Europe towards the natural surroundings of the historic Fort Thüngen.