In 1974, a private association was formed to promote the creation of a modern-art museum here and it collected art and received donations.

Many Roles, Some New The $70 million building, financed largely by the city, includes a modern-art museum, library, auditorium and video and music rooms.

There are, for instance, dozens of modern-art museums, so the Museum of Modern Art, now at moma.org, might have to become, say, modern.

More recently, Hundertwasser transformed a one-time factory of the Thonet furniture company into a modern-art museum and exhibition hall, the Kunsthaus.

If the scheme works out, it will be London's first new international art gallery since 1897 and the city's first modern-art museum.

Mr. Serota convincingly makes the argument that London needs a modern-art museum.

For years he was an art prince, the quintessential modern artist at the quintessential modern-art museum.

They were also the years in which the museum came to be ranked as the father and grandfather of modern-art museums the world over.

The charger, a triangular chrome tube, looks as if it belongs in a modern-art museum.

The steps on the other side take you down near the Wiener Secession, a small modern-art museum, almost kiosklike in its dimensions.