MAXXI is a museum dedicated to contemporary creativity. A place of cultural innovation and mingled languages, a laboratory for artistic experimentation, and a machine for the production of a contemporary aesthetic. Under the new artistic direction of Hou Hanru, MAXXI will no longer be simply a museum but a "laboratory for research and confrontation, a hub, a driving force behind a global artistic circuit that covers all contemporary artistic expressions (architecture, design, performing arts and the knowledge industry) for a new ecology of creativity”.