MCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, was initially conceptualized in a 1964 meeting of Chicago personals at art critic Doris Lane Butler’s home to establish a museum devoted to the modern art to complement Chicago’s Art Institute of Chicago. The MCA was opened in 1967 in a small space in the Kunsthalle model and began to establish a collection of contemporary art in 1974. In 1996, the museum was moved to its current location at 220 East Chicago Avenue, a former National Guard Armory, into a newly constructed structure designed by Josef Paul Kleihues of Berlin.