From the sketches I built up some and came up with newer refined ideas. I made several variations for each trying to find unique ways of showing and representing the museum.

More variations!!! I wanted to test how far I could push this idea and have a simple but playful design. I decided to further explore the bottom left because it was simple and still implied dimension. 

I wanted to pay with overlapping letter forms in an abstract way. This was interesting but since I wanted to explore a different render I chose to continue with the top right variation.

I focused on two design styles. One more geometric and another very gradient heavy. I thought bringing dimension and lighting to this very geometric form would be different and unique. 

With this logo there is a celebration between two aspects of the museum. One celebrating modern art and another celebrating classical paintings. We see this with the marriage of two typefaces. 

Due to the font being too detailed in the previous version this felt more unified yet different. It still communicates the same message celebrating art forms in the museum.