Tourist Attraction in Luxembourg:
Mudam - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
The Museum of Modern Art grand Duke Jean (abbreviated form: Mudam) is a museum dedicated to modern arts, located in the district of kirchberg, in the city of Luxembourg. He was created by the luxembourg government under the impetus of the Prime Minister Jacques Santer, in 1989, during the celebrations of 25 years of the reign of the grand Duke Jean. It is for this reason that he's got your name. The change is the counterpart of Luxembourg Museum of contemporary art of international class as the Pompidou Center (Paris), the Mamco (Geneva), the Moma (New York), etc. Seventeen years passed between the time that I. M. Pei was entrusted the architecture of the museum and the inauguration of the building, in particular by the fact that a local controversy as to the use that should have been done of the remains of a fortress (the Fort Thüngen) designed For vauban on which keeps the building.