The Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg is an important museum in Strasbourg. Opened in 1973, it is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in all of France. It preserves a vast collection: about 18,000 works are part of it divided between painting, sculpture, graphic and multimedia arts, as well as a vast photo library, from the period from 1870 to the contemporary era. It also organizes four different temporary exhibitions every year :. In the building that houses the museum there is also the art library and the official library of the municipal museums of Strasbourg, as well as an auditorium for conferences. The museum is housed in a large glass building on the left bank of the river III, on the edge of the historic city center, designed by Adrien Fainsilberg, who also designed the Cité des sciences et de industrie in Paris. The collection within the museum includes works of modern art, including the currents of Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Academic Painting, Cubism, Expressionism, Dada, Surréalism, Abstraction and Interwar Figuration. Particularly distinguished are works by the likes of Renoir, Rodin, Monet, Gauguin, Signac, Braque, Picasso, Kandinsky, Van Doesburg, Ernst, Brauner, Herbin, Domela, Magnelli and several others. However, the beating heart of the collection are the works of two native Strasbourg artists: Gustave Doré and Jean Art (of whom they conserve (respectively 403 and 72 works). As for the contemporary collection, this includes art from the 1960s-1970s, with currents such as the Nouveau-Réalisme, Fluxus, Arte Povera, Supports Surfaces, as well as various works by deconstructivist artists. Several works are also visible in the external spaces of the museum, such as the terrace or the gardens: works by Mario Merz, Séverine Hubard, Mimmo Paladino and Thomas Schütte. The Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg is active in ensuring a careful look at emerging artists and reserves a privileged place for new artistic generations both in the organization of exhibitions temporary and in the acquisition of new works.