The impressive stairs in Museum Küppersmühle for modern art.

The museum is housed in a former grain warehouse within the Innenhafen, Duisburg’s previous harbour district. The warehouse was a part of a milling complicated that additionally included a boiler home with a chimney and a silo. The constructing acquired its present title in 1969, when the milling firm was taken over by Küpper. The mill ceased operations in 1972. Within the late Nineteen Nineties, the constructing was transformed right into a museum based mostly on a design by the architectural agency Herzog & de Meuron