Described as a jewel in the park by New York architect Richard Meier, the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden opened in October 2004. Along the famous Lichtentaler Allee, he created a unique and light-flooded architecture where interior and exterior spaces, modern art, and romantic parks are in constant dialogue. The Museum Frieder Burda presents 20th and 21st-century art in changing exhibitions on four levels. The works from the Frieder Burda collection are presented from ever new perspectives and in new contexts, with annual monographic and thematic special exhibitions. The museum is a place for a lively and diverse artistic discourse with high-profile presentations, such as those featuring Emil Nolde, Gerhard Richter, Andreas Gursky, JR, James Turrell, or Katharina Grosse. The museum is supported by the Frieder Burda Foundation.

The Frieder Burda collection comprises around 1000 works of modern and contemporary art – paintings, sculptures, objects, and works on paper – and is one of the most significant and high-quality private art collections in Europe. The fascination with color and the emotional expressiveness of painting have always been at the center of the collector's interest. This explains his affinity with the works of American artists of abstract expressionism such as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, or with German expressionism like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Max Beckmann. Powerful and modern transcendent archaism also dominates the late work of Pablo Picasso, of which the collection preserves a body of work in Germany that is hardly comparable. However, the focus of the Frieder Burda collection lies on the second half of the 20th century and on the latest developments in painting and photography. The collection is particularly dedicated to internationally renowned German artists such as Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, and Georg Baselitz, as well as the Austrian Arnulf Rainer. Current collection activities focus on a younger generation of artists such as Neo Rauch, Karin Kneffel, Andreas Gursky, and Katharina Grosse.