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Museums
From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City toChicago to Dallas, museums are either planning,building, or wrapping up wholesale expansionprograms. These programs already have radicallyaltered facades and floor plans or are expected todo so in the not-too-distant future.
In New York City alone, six major institutions havespread up and out into the air space andneighborhoods around them or are preparing to doso.
The reasons for this confluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a considerationeverywhere - space. With collections expanding, with the needs and functions of museumschanging, empty space has become a very precious commodity.
Probably nowhere in the country is this more true than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, whichhas needed additional space for decades and which received its last significant facelift ten yearsago. Because of the space crunch, the Art Museum has become increasingly cautious inconsidering acquisitions and donations of art, in some cases passing up opportunities tostrengthen its collections.
Deaccessing - or selling off - works of art has taken on new importance because of themuseum's space problems. And increasingly, curators have been forced to juggle gallery space,rotating one masterpiece into public view while another is sent to storage.
Despite the clear need for additional gallery and storage space, however, the museum has noplan, no plan to break out of its envelope in the next fifteen years, according to PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art's president.
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