The event will begin with a tour of the academy's latest exhibition, "Rave Reviews: American Art and Its Critics," followed by a reading of "Norman the Doorman," the story of an artistic mouse who secretly enters a sculpture in a museum competition.
Oakhurst Gardens, Minnetrista (which features artistic, historical, and horticultural exhibits), and the Academy of Model Aeronautics (a museum and competition site) are in the city.
The craft museum was in competition with two other plans.
"Ferryboat," photographs by Charles Martin, and "Festival of Trees," Staten Island students decorating trees for the museum's annual competition.
After the city agreed to the sale, the museum held a competition to choose an architect for the building's conversion.
Deyan Sudjic (director of the museum): London 2012 Olympic torch designed by Barber Osgerby, Team GB cycling helmet, a Badoiiing game (2012 winner of the museum's design competition for 13- to 16-year-olds).
But they have plenty of competition from museums around the country, including the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
With competition among museums a clear though intangible factor in the current building surge, it is not surprising that the North Carolina Museum of Art bills itself as "the Southeast's premier visual arts museum," while the High Museum of Art in Atlanta stakes the same claim, calling itself "the leading art museum in the Southeast".
In the United States, for example, the competition between museums for public attention led directly to the Bone Wars of the 1880s and 1890s, during which a pair of feuding paleontologists made enormous scientific contributions.
One thing led to another, and the museum started a design competition.
