The reconstruction of its interior, primarily as a museum, was completed in 1995.
But she arrived just as the museum was completing a round of layoffs.
In 1819 the building intended by Charles III to house a natural history and science museum was completed.
Eventually he married an American, and when the museum was completed, he decided to stay in Manhattan.
The partnership would not take place until the Whitney's new museum was completed in 2015, at which point the Met could embark on a much-needed renovation of its galleries of modern and contemporary art.
By the time his Berlin museum was completed, he was 54 and had spent an entire decade pouring his heart into a single building that remains his greatest architectural achievement.
But in 1857, just seven years after the museum was completed, the Reading Room was added, and the rest of the courtyard was quickly invaded by stockrooms housing books.
When the museum is complete, the sand will be removed and, according to Mr. Tschumi, the dig will be just as the archaeologists left it.
Since then I've always thought they were rather nice, and no visit to a museum is complete without a quick mooch around the gift shop to see if they've any on offer.
When the permanent exhibition at the museum is complete, it will tell the story of the Holocaust, as well as the difficult chapters in Polish-Jewish relations, including the murders of camp survivors after the war and the Communist government's 1968 anti-Semitic campaign.
He added that the agreement ensured that construction "will be restarted very soon and will not stop until the museum is completed".
