Completion of this plan, which the museum calls Phase I, will increase exhibition space by 27percentto to 677,000 square feet.
All this expansion will increase exhibition space by 34.7percentto to 270,00 square feet, and double the space assigned to services to 345,500 square feet.
They planned essentially to start over from scratch at a cost of more than $1.5 billion, extending the convention hall to West 40th Street from 39th Street and increasing exhibition space to more than one million square feet from less than 800,000.
Mr. Wardropper said he still firmly believes in the reasons behind the effort: to increase exhibition space and to improve circulation, amenities, infrastructure and wheelchair accessibility — trying to meet the needs of modern audiences while honoring the building's jewel-box quality.
As part of the refurbishment, a new extension has been built to increase exhibition and display space, with improvements also carried out on existing galleries and public spaces.
A new extension has been built to increase exhibition and display space, with improvements also carried out on existing galleries and public spaces.
The new 52,000-square-foot building will increase exhibition space by 50% compared with the museum's current location in Newport Beach, officials said.
Taipei's National Palace Museum, which prides itself on possessing the world's greatest collection of Chinese art, has increased its exhibition space, doubling the number of objects on display to about 12,000.
The pavilion opened in 1990 and increased the exhibition space to more than 80000 sqft.
Provide additional physical space to house the new and expanded programs in the creative and performing arts, to serve as a focal point for creative and artistic activity at Princeton, and to increase the exhibition space available to the Art Museum, especially for contemporary art and special exhibits.
