Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have been commissioned to design the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art (KMOMA) in Calcutta, India.

The US$50m (£30.6m, 34.4m euro) project will be built on a 10-acre plot that was donated by the Indian government, which is also providing US$32m of the funding.

The 300,000sq ft museum will exhibit a collection ranging from 19th century to art to contemporary art.

The KNOMA Trust was set up 2003 to develop the museum and one of its trustees, Rakhi Sarkar, told a press conference that: “The museum will be four-winged: The National Wing for colonial and post-colonial art; the Western Gallery for art from western countries, including west Asia; the Far Eastern wing for works of art from South Asian countries, as well as Japan, China and Korea; and an Academic wing for multidisciplinary interaction.”