The Casa Milà (Milà House) by Antoni Gaudì, also known as “La Pedrera” is an architectural masterpiece, a museum, and a cultural center in Barcelona

Designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, the Centre Pompidou Metz is an art center, branch of the Centre Pompidou Paris in Lorraine, north-eastern France

Where Architects live is an exhibition-installation which depicts the spaces and the cities where eight protagonists of contemporary architecture reside

The MACRO is a contemporary art museum in Rome. Designed by architect Odile Decq on the site of a disused brewery, it mostly features special exhibitions

The archaeological museum of the Ara Pacis in Rome, designed by Richard Meier, houses a Roman monumental altar dedicated to the Roman Peace goddess

The Riverside Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, is an iconic building by Zaha Hadid Architects and the most visited transport museum in the United Kingdom

The Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseerna) in Gothenbug, by Brisac Gonzalez architects, is both an ethnographic museum and a vibrant cultural center

The River Mora Aquarium in Portugal is the largest freshwater aquarium in Europe. It is housed in a vibrant building designed by Promontorio architects

The Vasarely Foundation in Aix-en-Provence, southern France, is both an art museum and a total artwork created by Optical Art master Victor Vasarely in 1976

The Museu del Disseny is the most important museum in Barcelona dedicated to design, fashion and decorative arts, its main venue is the Disseny Hub

The Photographers’ Gallery in London is the leading center in the UK exclusively focused on British and international modern and contemporary photography

The Caixaforum Barcelona is a renowned cultural center in Barcelona, whose historical building was renovated in 2002 after a design by Arata Isozaki

The Musée du Louvre-Lens is an art museum, a satellite of the Louvre museum in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, and an iconic building designed by SANAA and Imrey Culbert architects

The Museu Blau, also known as Forum Building, is the main center of the Natural History Museum of Barcelona and an iconic architecture by Herzog & de Meuron

Palazzo Te is a cultural center in Mantua housed in a 16th-century Renaissance palace designed and decorated by Italian artist Giulio Romano

The Museum Liner – Kunstmuseum Appenzell is a museum in Switzerland, housed in an iconic building designed by Gigon & Guyer, mostly focused on modern art

The Design Museum is a museum in Kensington, London, covering all fields of design, from architecture to graphic design, from fashion to industrial design

Built in 1807, the Giardini della Biennale (Biennale’s Gardens) is the main venue of the annual art and architecture exhibitions of the Venice Biennale

The Museum der Kulturen (Museum of Cultures) in Basel is one of the most important ethnographic museums in Europe, with an expansion by Herzog & de Meuron

The Mucem in Marseille is a large museum focused on Mediterranean civilizations, housed in an iconic building designed by French architect Rudy Ricciotti

The Fondation Cartier is an art center in Paris, designed by Jean Nouvel, focused on the promotion of the most diverse forms of contemporary art and culture

The Schaulager is a world-famous modern and contemporary art center near Basel, Switzerland, whose iconic building was designed by Herzog & de Meuron

The Beyeler Foundation near Basel is one of the most renowned modern art museums in Switzerland, with a collection ranging from Degas to Bacon and beyond

The m.a.x museo in Chiasso is a museum of art and design named after Swiss designer Max Huber and housed in an iconic building by Durisch + Nolli Architects

The MACBA is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Barcelona housed in an iconic building, designed by architect Richard Meier, in the Raval district

Along with being a museum of modern and contemporary art in Paris’ Marais district, the Centre Pompidou by Piano & Rogers was the first modern cultural hub, as we call it today