Lentos - Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened in the Austrian city of Linz as the successor to the New Gallery. The museum was opened in May 2003 and is one of the most important museums of modern art in Austria.

Incredibly beautiful building of the museum, is a clear design in a modern style, was created by the architects Weber and Hofer Zurich. Once the building appeared on the bank of the Danube, it instantly became a major architectural landmark. The facade is made of glass panels which create a sense of daylight incredible lightness and weightlessness of the assembly. In the dark, the backlight of the building, I have one color to another.

The length of the museum sostavlyaet130 meters, and the exhibits are placed in an area of ​​8,000 square meters. On the ground floor of the museum opened a cafe with a cozy terrace viewing.

Art Museum collection includes some 1,500 works from the field of sculpture, more than 10,000 paintings, and about 850 photographs, including those who have made significant contributions to the development of artistic photography (Ray Mann, G. Bayer). The earliest of the museum date back to the first half of the 19th century. Among the examples of classical modernism in the museum's collection features works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Corinth and Pechstein. The collection also includes both the interwar period with the works of German and Austrian Expressionism. The museum exhibited the works of such great masters: Stephan Balkenhol, Ernst Barlach, Anthony Caro, Tony Cragg, Amadeo Gabino, Donald Judd, Jiri Kolar, Catherine Lee, Thomas Lenk, Baltasar Lobo, Klaus Rinke, Jan Voss, Tim Scott, Danieel Sperry and others.

Since May 2004, the Viennese curator, critic and journalist Stella Rollig became director of the museum. In addition to the existing collection, new and interesting paintings can be seen at trade shows.