Crystal Bridges plans an expansion that will boost its size by 50%

Museum expansion

Museums & Heritage

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Moshe Safdie

Architecture

A rendering of an aerial view of an expanded Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art 

While US museum attendance nosedived in 2020 amid pandemic, disparities in reopenings yielded a few surprises

Attendance

Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Coronavirus

Visitor Figures

Visitor Figures 2020

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which reopened last June, made the Top 10 list of American museums ranked for attendance in 2020 

Visitors return to Crystal Bridges amid adaptations and provocations 

Exhibitions

reopenings

Visitors enter the Early American Gallery at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art 

Images courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary

Crystal Bridges launches satellite for living artists

The Momentary

Openings

Contemporary art

Private Museums

Museums

JooYoung Choi’s Time for You and Joy to Get Acquainted (2017), part of the first show 

Courtesy of Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art and the Momentary

Take it to the top—how US museums are dealing with diversity

Smithsonian Institution

Washington, DC

diversity

Museum leadership rarely reflects actual demographics. Above, children at the Minneapolis Institute of Art 

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