Museum de Fundatie

Zwolle's main art museum, topped by a bold oval extension above the old courthouse.

Museum de Fundatie is Zwolle's main art museum and the city's most conspicuous modern intervention. The older building is dignified enough, but the oval rooftop extension gives it the shock value that makes people stop in the street.

Inside, exhibitions range across visual art rather than sticking to one narrow period. It is the best rainy-day choice in Zwolle and pairs neatly with a walk to the Sassenpoort or the Grote Markt.

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The museum's 2013 rooftop extension is nicknamed "the cloud" and changed Zwolle's skyline overnight. It is deliberately odd: a pale, tiled oval sitting on a neoclassical building like a visitor from another century.