Kolkata Museum of Modern Art

Kolkata Museum of Modern Art (KMOMA) is a proposed art museum to be built in New Town, Kolkata. The KMOMA had been estimated to cost about Rs 500 crore and is set to be built on a 40,000-square-metre (10-acre) plot in the nearby township of New Town by the state government, is designed by acclaimed Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, who created the Bird's Nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics. The Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee had laid the foundation stone for this project in November 2013.