Patrizia della Porta's MU-seum project concerns the representation of the void in contemporary architecture and the exploration of different museums of modern and contemporary art.
The name of the project refers to japanese ideogram MU (equivalent to the chinese WU) that means void, nothing and is connected to a Zen concept and a Tao approach to Art Creation.
Moreover, the english arcaic word Muse means contemplation, meditation and abstraction. Contemporary Art Museums, through these multiple stratifications of meanings and suggestions, present and preserve the creative energy of the Void (Vacuum, Blank-ness,...) to be contemplated.

One part of the MU-project suggests, to the viewer, variations of the gaze on the "involucres" (the outside and the inside spaces of the Art Museums) that keep alive this energy.
The four elements of the Universe are used as instruments of symbolical interpretation of the architect's primal inspiration.
The first four Museums, explored by the eye of the artist are:

1. The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, by Marcel Breuer, related to the earth.

2. The Guggenheim Museum in New York, by Frank Lloyd Wright, related to the air.

3. The East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, by Ieoh M.Pei, related to the fire.

4. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, by Frank O.Gehry, related to the water.