Location: Rome, Italy.

Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects.

The MAXXI_Museum is the first national museum dedicated to contemporary creativity, designed by architect Zaha Hadid. It houses two institutions: MAXXI Arte (Director Anna Mattirolo) and MAXXI Architecture (Director Margherita Guccione). Over 300 works are part of the MAXXI Art collection, including those of Boetti, Clemente, Kapoor, Kentridge, Merz, Penone, Pintaldi, Richter, Warhol and many others. The MAXXI includes an auditorium, library and media library, bookshop and cafeteria, spaces for temporary exhibitions, outdoor spaces, live events and commercial activities, laboratories, and places for study and leisure. The MAXXI Art and MAXXI Architecture is an urban campus designed by Zaha Hadid, with two principal architectural elements: concrete walls that define the exhibition galleries and a transparent roof that modulates natural light.

Materials such as glass, steel, and cement give the exhibition spaces a neutral appearance, while mobile panels enable curatorial flexibility and variety. A pedestrian walkway follows the outline of the building, restoring an urban link that has been blocked for almost a century.