Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

Overview: The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, North Carolina is a 36,500-square-foot museum space dedicated to the presentation of mid-20th-century art. The museum is part of the Levine Center for the Arts in Uptown - a cultural destination that also includes the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, the Knight Theater, and the Mint Museum Uptown. The museum building was designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta and is named after the family of Andreas Bechtler, a Swiss-born Charlotte resident who inherited and assembled a collection of more than 1,400 works of art by major figures of 20th-century modernism. The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art opened to the public on January 2, 2010.