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The New Museum is set to reopen in the autumn after undergoing a US$82m expansion, which has seen the development of a new 60,000sq ft facility
Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 06 Mar 2025
The expansion has been designed by architecture firm OMA in partnership with urban design practice Cooper Robertson Credit: OMA
The New Museum, a contemporary art museum in New York, US, will reopen to the public later this year after closing its doors in March 2024 to undergo a US$82m (€78m, £65m) expansion.
The project has seen the development of a new 60,000sq ft (5,574sq m) facility located next door to the museum in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas of OMA in collaboration with urban design firm Cooper Robertson, the seven-storey building will expand the museum’s footprint to 119,700sq ft (11,120sq m), with 20,240sq ft (1,880sq m) dedicated to gallery space.
Described by New Museum director Lisa Phillips as a “vital civic resource for New Yorkers and the global art community,” the new building has been designed to complement the museum’s existing SANAA-designed structure.
Its facilities will include artist’s studios and education and event spaces, as well as a purpose-built space for the museum’s cultural incubator; NEW INC. While an entrance plaza, three elevators and an atrium stairway will improve guest circulation.
“Imagined as a highly connected yet distinct counterpart to the existing museum’s verticality and solidity, the new building will offer horizontally expansive galleries for curatorial variety, open vertical circulation and a diversity of spaces for gathering, exchange and creation,” Shigematsu said in a statement.
“The building is further shaped to create an active public face – including an outdoor plaza at the ground, moments of transparency throughout the central atrium and terraced openings at the top – that will open engage the surrounding community and beyond.”
The expansion forms part of a wider US$125m (€115m, £97m) capital project, which has seen US $118m (€109m, £92m) raised to date, including a US$30m (€28m, £23m) donation from Toby Devan Lewis, a late trustee of the museum. Lewis’s donation represents the largest gift in the New Museum’s history, with the museum naming the new building in Lewis’s honour to commemorate his support.
“The New Museum has always been a future-facing museum – not a place for preserving and recording history, but a place where history is made,” Phillips added.
An official reopening date has not been announced, but reports suggest the museum will reopen in the autumn. The museum will relaunch with a new exhibition entitled ‘New Humans: memories of the Future’ and will feature works from more than 150 artists exploring how technology and social changes are redefining humanity.
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