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The Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK) is one of the central venues for presenting and communicating modern and contemporary art in an international art and museum context. Striking in its concise outer appearance, encased by grey basalt-lava stone, the cube of the MUMOK is – alongside the Leopold Museum and the Kunsthalle Wien – one of the principal locations within the MuseumsQuartier, established in the baroque area of Fischer von Erlach’s former stables. Amidst this new centre of arts and culture, where art history can be examined in its manifold expressions from Modernism to the present, MUMOK constitutes a kind of a focal point, where art history and contemporary art are combined in a permanent dialogue under one roof.

The museum’s collection is displayed on three levels of exhibition space in a series of presentations which change every year. In order to illuminate new aesthetical and content-dependent coherences, the works are shown under the title FOCUS. A separate exhibition space with a temporary cinema – the MUMOK Factory – as well as several exhibition levels are available for special exhibitions and contemporary art with its discoursive practices; the Factory's view of the present alters at the same time the perception of the past, thereby designating the museum as 'work in progress'.