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Construction of a bold and welcoming new Museum building at the heart of the University campus is now complete, with its public opening on October 31, 2025. Announced in 2018, the project has been overseen by Museum Director James Steward and University Architect Ron McCoy. The building was designed by the architectural firm Adjaye Associates, in collaboration with executive architects Cooper Robertson. Roughly doubling the space for the exhibition, conservation, study, and interpretation of the Museum’s globe-spanning collections, the building also includes a new array of social gathering spaces and visitor amenities. At a time of self-reflection for both museums and universities, the design embodies the Museum’s long-standing commitment to serve as a hub and a gathering place, a nexus for the arts and humanities—a metaphor for the college campus at its best—that affords encounters with cultures past and present from around the world and seeks to foster stronger citizenship among its University, local, and global communities.
"The building’s architecture and the globe-spanning galleries within will invite visitors to see themselves as citizens of a broader set of communities,” notes Steward, “which in turn will, we hope, nurture a deeper sense of our shared humanity.”
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