The Walker Art Center is a great contemporary museum, firmly entrenched somewhere in the top five of my perennial favorites with the Whitney, Pompidou, Tate and, I don't know, let's say the Hirshorn. The original museum building was designed by Edward Larabee Barnes, the guy who also designed the familiar IBM Building on 57th Street (you know, the one with all that bamboo behind Trump Tower). From memory the old Walker building was not that bad, just small and a bit dated. All of that changed in 2005 when they opened their much deserved monster addition, designed by everyone's favorite contemporary art museum architects, Herzog and de Meuron...