Outstanding museums were created by Hans Dollgast (reconstruction of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, 1957), Alexander Freiherr von Branca (Neue Pinakothek in Munich, 1981), Hans Hollein (Abteiberg Municipal Museum in Monchengladbach, 1982), and Peter Busman and Godfrid Haberer (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum/Museum Ludwig in Cologne, 1986).

During the 1980s the city of Frankfurt am Main erected a “museum embankment” along the Main River: the German Architectural Museum (Oswald Mathias Ungers, 1984), the German Cinema Museum (Helge Bofinger, 1984), the Museum of Applied Arts (Richard Meier, 1984), the Museum of Prehistory and Early History (Josef Paul Kleihues, 1989), the Jewish Museum (Ante Josip von Kostelac, 1986) and the German Postal Museum (Behnisch and Partners, 1990). An attraction in the heart of the city of Frankfurt is the cultural center “Schirn” (Dietrich Bangert, Bernd Jansen, Stefan Scholz and Axel Schultes, 1985).

The great era of museum construction temporarily came to end upon the completion of three structures in the federal city of Bonn - the Art Center of the Federal Republic of Germany (Gustav Peichl, 1993), the Art Museum (Axel Schultes, 1993) and the Museum of Contemporary German History (Ingeborg and Hartmut Rudiger, 1994) - as well as the new Hamburg Art Gallery (Oswald Mathias Ungers, 1997).

An excellent example of how a hospital can be organically merged with the landscape is the Filderklinik in Filderstadt near Stuttgart (Bockmuller, Weller and Partners, 1975). The Aachen Klinikum (Weber, Brand & Partners, 1988) and the University Clinic in Nuremberg (Joedicke and others, 1993) are prime examples of modern high-tech architecture.