Sydney Modern is a new reason to visit Sydney (photos)

At the beginning of December, Sydney Modern opened its doors to the public, Sydney’s new pride museum and Australia’s answer to New York’s Guggenheim or London’s Tate gallery.

The refurbished Art Gallery of New South Wales is billed as Sydney’s biggest cultural asset after the iconic Sydney Opera House and puts the city high on the list of art and culture buffs.

Looking for a reason to head to Australia?

The new Sydney Modern, an expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, promises a world-class facility to showcase the best in contemporary art. https://t.co/Ph61CufAvb

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The new museum boasts a collection of over 30,000 works of art, Australian and Aboriginal art, European and Asian art from the 15th to the late 20th century.

It includes works by renowned artists such as Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys and Wassily Kandinsky as well as famous Aboriginal artists such as Richard Bell, Brook Andrew and Emily Kame Kngwarreye.

The $228 million project opened in 2013 and includes a new building, public art garden and renovation of the late 19th century building facilities. Now, the exhibition space has almost doubled thanks to the vision of the Pritzker Prize-winning architecture office SANAA.

For the extension, which is on a hill overlooking Sydney Harbour’s Woolloomooloo Bay, SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa said our aim was “to design an art museum building that is in harmony with its surroundings, that it breathes with the city, the park and the port”.

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