Lentos Art Museum
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The glassy Lentos museum faces the Danube opposite Ars Electronica, creating a contemporary cultural corridor beside the historic centre.
Its importance is urban as much as artistic. Linz spent decades trying to broaden an image dominated by smokestacks and steel. Cultural investment did not make the factories disappear; it changed what else the city could be known for. That makes the waterfront a deliberate piece of twenty-first-century city branding.