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The Williams Forum at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, looking west into Lenfest Hall from the ground level. The architect Frank Gehry demolished a former auditorium and replaced it with a dramatic 40ft-high open space Photo: Elizabeth Leitzell; courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Enlisting the creativity of Frank Gehry, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has completed a $233m renovation and reorganisation of the lower interior spaces at the heart of its landmarked 1928 Beaux-Arts building. The latest phase of a master plan for improvements that was approved by the museum’s board in 2004 and involved four years of construction, the so-called Core Project yields nearly 90,000 sq. ft of reimagined public spaces and new galleries that are due to open on 7 May.
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry has designed new galleries and public spaces as part of a revamp of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania.
The museum s new spaces will open to the public tomorrow on 7 May 2021 after a four-year-long renovation.
A sculptural staircase leads down to the Williams Forum
Called the Core Project, the renovation and extension encompassed 90,000-square-feet (8,360 square metres) including 20,000 square feet (1,850 metres) of new gallery space. The first stage of the renovation opened to the public in 2019.
Canadian-American architect Gehry led the process of redesigning the historic building on Fairmount hill.
The Lenfest Hall has been renovated
Sign Up For Entry Slots For SFMOMA s Upcoming Free Days
SFMOMA has scheduled three upcoming days for free museum-going, and given the general public s ravenous hunger for in-person culture, you d best sign up for a reserved entry slot or risk standing in a terrible line.
For the second time since the start of the pandemic, as KQED reports, SFMOMA is offering some free-entry days for the public, including a Saturday in May that promises to be PACKED or at least as busy as they allow, capacity wise, with masks and blah blah.
The first date is actually this Monday, April 26, and the latest available times for entry (3:00 and 3:30 p.m.) are already sold out. Clearly people who are working from home can knock off a little early to get to the museum, but for everyone else who is either funemployed or enjoys an even more flexible schedule, there are still times available between 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. as of this writing.