Redesign
A €55m reconstruction was made possible by Berthold Beitz, a philanthropist and former steel baron who initiated his Krupp Foundation to finance the project. An international architectural competition organized by the City of Essen was won by David Chipperfield (against competing designs by David Adjaye, Volker Staab, and Zaha Hadid) in March 2007. The new building, adding 16,000 m2 to the existing museum, opened in January 2010, when Essen and the Ruhr Area became European Capital of Culture.
Read more about this topic: Museum Folkwang, History