Daily Management Review

The Philadelphia Museum of Art Opens to the Future


06/17/2021


Celebrating an ambitious renovation by Frank Gehry, The Philadelphia Museum of Art reopens to the public with a commitment to broadened histories and reinvigorated community ties.



by Bernard Zirnheld

View from level one, looking west down into the Williams Forum. Steve Hall © Hall + Merrick Photographers, courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art 202
View from level one, looking west down into the Williams Forum. Steve Hall © Hall + Merrick Photographers, courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art 202
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has unveiled a series of newly renovated spaces by architect Frank Gehry, a major step in accomplishing the institution’s twenty-year Core Project master plan adopted in 2004. Centered on a dramatic great hall and floating staircase, Gehry’s design has added 20,000 square feet of gallery space, transformed former back-of-house spaces into gracious public promenades... read more