MGA : Harvard University Art Museums

Harvard University
Art Museums

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Harvard University Art Museums
2004–2005
Cambridge, MA
(Fogg Art Museum, Sackler Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum and a new location, Site II)
Tom Lentz, Director
John Seager, Senior Manager, Capital Projects
Renzo Piano, Architect, Fogg Site
Daly Genik Architects, Site II
Fogg Site 210,000 GSF
Site II 140,000 GSF
Total project size: 350,000 GSF
Strategic Plan, Building Program and Staffing Plan for two sites
Project in design

The Harvard University Art Museums is a single museum which operates three “museum” divisions: The Fogg Art Museum, the Arthur M. Sackler Asian Art Museum and the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Art and Culture, as well as the Straus Conservation Center, the HUAM Archives, and the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art. The historic Fogg Building dates from 1927 and has not been significantly renovated since its construction. MGA worked with the HUAM staff, the senior Harvard administration, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the faculties of the departments of Art History and Architecture to develop a comprehensive strategic plan, a staffing plan and a detailed building program for the museum’s next 20 years.

Our work outlined a multi-phase, ten-year approach, in which a new site would be developed at Harvard’s new Allston campus. The contents of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger buildings would be relocated to this new site (Site II) and then renovation and expansion would take place at the Fogg. The buildings will be repurposed, with the Allston site, designed by Daly Genik Architects, presenting a long-term focus on contemporary art at Site II, as well as housing of a large portion of the HUAM staff and numerous art storage, study and seminar areas. The Fogg site, redesigned by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, will focus on works of art from Europe, the classical world and Asia. The Busch-Reisinger will then be relocated back at the Fogg site. The total project budget will be approximately $350 million, with a budget of $252 for the newly expanded 210,000 GSF Fogg renovation and approximately $98 for the 140,000 GSF new Allston site. The Allston site is expected to complete construction in 2009 and the Fogg in approximately 2011.

Harvard University Art Museums official site (This link will take you from the MGA site)

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