Denver Art Museum Undergoes Expansion

Denver Art Museum Undergoes Expansion
The Denver Art Museum is currently undergoing a major expansion that will nearly double the size of the existing Museum and provide valuable space for permanent collections and traveling exhibitions when it opens next year in the fall of 2006.

Designed by renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, the 146,000 square-foot Frederic C. Hamilton Building spans the length of a city block and is an explosion of angular forms clad in titanium.

It will be situated directly south of the existing North Building; the two structures are connected by a bridge that extends from the new building's unique prow over 13th Avenue.

The Hamilton Building will house three changing exhibition spaces and feature new galleries for modern and contemporary, African, Oceanic, and Western American art.

During the opening year, the Museum will utilize the Hamilton Building's three changing exhibition spaces (totaling more than 20,000 square feet) to showcase more of its permanent collection that it currently doesn't have the space to display.

The first-floor changing exhibition space, named the Gallagher Family Gallery, will feature works from the Japanese art collection of Kimiko and John Powers.

The second-floor Anschutz Gallery will host a modern and contemporary art installation, Radar: Selections from the Logan Collection.