KBL group, partner of MUDAM
The site
The museum is located on the old Fort Thüngen site, near the Place de l’Europe, on the plateau of Kirchberg.
Fort Thüngen was built in 1832 to plans drawn up in 1688 by Vauban. An important part of the city’s defence works, it was dismantled in 1867, when Luxembourg was declared neutral by the Treaty of London. The fortifications were excavated and rebuilt together with the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.
It was precisely here that on the ramparts of the old fortress that Ieoh Ming Pei decided to build the new museum, describing his plan as an attempt “to harmonise the past and the present so that they mutually reinforce each other.“
