By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
A couple of weeks ago, the city of Warsaw launched a new art museum. A sleek, white-walled Museum of Modern Art, designed by the American architect Thomas Phifer, has been built in the very center of the city, facing the wedding-cake-shaped, socialist-era Palace of Culture and Science. Conceptually, the two buildings could not be farther apart. The Palace of Culture was constructed in the 1950s as a “gift” from the Soviet Union to the newly established Communist regime. Warsaw’s MOMA has emerged in the new Poland, a country that is an independent, democratic state within the European Union.
