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WHAT'S NEW
GALLERY CLOSURES
The Museum will remain open during regular operating hours, however due to the expansion and renovation project certain galleries may be closed. Please refer to the list of gallery closures below.
- The American Gallery is closed throughout the expansion project.
- The Ancient American collection is partially off-view.
- The Egyptian collection is partially off-view.
CONSTRUCTION UPDATES
Please refer to the information below when planning your visit to the Museum. For images of the construction project, click here.
- A new driveway to the Museum is now complete.
- Construction signs are posted around the Museum campus. These signs direct visitors to parking, handicap drop-off, walkways, etc.
- The Museum galleries; Blue Ridge, the Museum Restaurant; and the Museum Store will remain open during regular operating hours throughout the construction process.
- The circle drive in front of the Museum (a popular drop-off location) is closed. A new, ADA compliant walkway is accessible from the main Museum parking lot.
- There will always be available space for parking. For your convenience, follow the signs to open lots as parking locations will change several times throughout the course of construction.
ABOUT THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART EXPANSION INITIATIVE
| On the eve of its 60th anniversary, The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA)—the first major American art museum collection to be formed by state legislation and appropriation—begins an ambitious expansion initiative, including construction of a new 127,000 square foot building to house the institution’s outstanding permanent collection of more than 5,000 objects spanning antiquity to the present day. This expansion initiative will also transform the NCMA’s existing 1983 Edward Durrell Stone building into a center for temporary exhibitions, collections management, education, and administration, and create lyrical gardens and outdoor galleries in a landscape for art and artist-conceived environmental projects. The institution’s completed 164-acre campuswill be the nation’s largest art museum park, with walking paths, bike trails, ecological projects conceived with artists, and site-specific |
View of planned Entrance Hall with Classical sculpture.
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commissioned works in a rolling green landscape fringed by pine woods.
In December 2006 the Museum officially broke ground for the project, and the new building is scheduled to open to the public in 2009. The new NCMA building has been designed by noted architect Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer and Partners, New York. Local executive architect for the project is Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee Architects of Raleigh, N.C. The landscape architect for the expansion project is Peter Walker of Peter Walker and Partners, Berkeley, Ca., which is working in collaboration with the local firm of Lappas + Havener, Durham, N.C.
For more information about the NCMA expansion project, click on the any of the options below:
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