The new museum sets a bold architectural accent in a heterogeneous industrial environment. The volume containing the exhibition is based on a polygonal plan and is clad in white-coated, lozenge-shaped aluminium panels. It is raised above a flat plinth structure that houses the foyer, restaurant and openly visible museum workshop. The gently sloping forecourt area – covered by this cantilevered exhibition structure – provides access to the sunken entrance. Much of the sense of weight of the raised steel volume is relieved by the polished stainless-steel sheeting on the underside, which creates changing reflections of the forecourt, plinth and staircase tracts. The view up from the foyer to the web-like glazing overhead heightens this effect, arousing the interest of visitors and inviting them to proceed further. Leading through this partly glazed access strip is a central staircase with two flanking escalators. The route narrows again: one passes from the brightly lit foyer through a reflecting intermediate zone into the broad, white museum landscape with its gently sloping ramps and stairs.