These Are the World’s Most Visually Stunning Museums

At a 2014 press conference covered by El Mundo, Frank Gehry proclaimed that “98 percent of everything that is built and designed today is pure shit.” He promptly apologized, citing travel fatigue, but his statement points to just how divisive architecture can be. Case in point: a surprising number of entries on click-baity lists of the world’s ugliest (or most-hated) buildings also appear on lists of the world’s most beautiful buildings. C’est kif-kif?

Much like the works within them, museums—viewed as objects—invite opinion...