Several museums and cultural centers have seen increased visitation after expansions designed by renowned architects. Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center, for example, experienced an 85% increase in attendance during the four-year period following the opening of the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center, designed by Pritzker-prize winning architect Zaha Hadid.
“It’s a key strategy for a growing number of museums: promoting ‘architourism,’ or drawing visitors with new buildings or wings by star architects.”
Museums and Cultural Centers USA Photo Gallery
The Wall Street Journal
The following are museums and performing arts centers designed by renowned contemporary architects:
Museums Architect
Art of the Americas Wing, Museum of Fine Arts
(Boston, MA): Norman Foster
Bellevue Arts Museum (Bellevue, WA): Steven Holl
Broad Art Museum (Michigan State
University; Ann Arbor, MI): Zaha Hadid
Broad Museum (Los Angeles, CA): Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Burke Brise Soleil addition to the Milwaukee
Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI): Santiago Calatrava
California Aerospace Museum (Los Angeles, CA): Frank Gehry
California Museum of Science and Industry
(Los Angeles, CA): Frank Gehry
Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, CA): Daniel Libeskind
Children’s Museum of Houston (Houston, TX): Robert Venturi
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
(Bentonville, AR): Moshe Safdie
Des Moines Art Center Modern Art Wing
(Des Moines, IA): Richard Meier
Experience Music Project (Seattle, WA): Frank O. Gehry
Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Fort Wayne, IN): Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Denver Art
Museum (Denver, CO): Daniel Libeskind
Frederick Weisman Museum of Art (University
of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN): Frank Gehry
George Bush Presidential Library
(College Station, TX): HOK
Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA): Richard Meier
Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA): Renzo Piano
High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA): Robert Meier
High Museum of Art addition (Atlanta, GA): Renzo Piano
Jepson Center for the Arts at the Telfair
Museum of Art (Savannah, GA): Moshe Safdie
Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, NE): Norman Foster
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, TX) Renzo Piano
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center at the
Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH): Zaha Hadid
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
(San Francisco, CA): Herzog & de Meuron
Menil Collection (Houston, TX): Renzo Piano
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL): Josef Paul Kleihues
National Air and Space Museum (Washington, DC): HOK
National Gallery of Art, East Building (Washington, DC):
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO): New Museum on the Bowery (New York, Ny): Paley Center for Media (Beverly Hills, CA):
Parrish Art Museum (Water Mill, NY):
Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum (Florida International University; Miami, FL):
Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science (Miami, FL):
Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA):
Perez Art Museum Miami (Miami, FL)
Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland, OH):
Rose Center for Earth and Space (New York, NY):
Salvador Dali Museum (St. Petersburg, FL):
St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO):
Performing Arts Centers
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (Miami, FL)
Cathedral Cultural Center (Garden Grove, CA): DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (University of Notre Dame; South Bend, IN):
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (Kansas City, MO):
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University (Boca Raton, FL): Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (Pittsburgh, PA):
New World Center (Miami, FL):
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts (Bard College; Annandale-on-Hudson, NY):
Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles, CA):
Valley Performing Arts Center (California State University Northridge; Northridge, CA):
Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, CA):
I.M. Pei Steven Holl SANAA Richard Meier Herzog & de Meuron
HOK
Grimshaw Architects Moshe Safdie Herzog & de Meuron.
I.M. Pei
Polsher Partnership Architects HOK
David Chipperfield Architects
Architect
Cesar Pelli Richard Meier
Pfeiffer Partners
Moshe Safdie
Herbert S. Newman
Raphael Vinoly Frank O. Gehry
Frank Gehry Moshe Safdie
HGA Architects Frank Gehry
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