The building will include dedicated galleries and increased exhibition space for the Textile Museum.
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.
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 National Museum of Scotland will open 10 new galleries this summer devoted to science, art and design, increasing its exhibition space by almost half and putting many treasures from its collections on display for the first time.
With our shrinking living space prompting us to rethink the boundaries between public and private, and the appetite for public bathing only increasing, this exhibition gets up a real head of steam.
A press release issued by OCMA last week stated that as part of the transition plan, the museum "will be increasing its exhibition offerings to offer a more balanced mix of Modern and contemporary art, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries".
The $20 million addition, with 14 new galleries, increases its exhibition space by 75percentt.
Construction to vastly increase its exhibition space is ongoing, but the gallery will reopen this spring with Inside The Studio: Artists & Ceramics (21 May to 2 Oct).
