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Harvard University?s three art museums ? the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger and the Arthur M. Sackler ? are being consolidated into one reorganized and upgraded facility, Harvard Art Museums, on the former site of the Fogg Museum on Quincy Street. The restored historic courtyard of the Fogg Museum is at the heart of 200,00 sq. ft (18,500 sq.m) of new museum space.
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The new facility combines the Fogg?s protected 1920?s Georgian revival building, with a new addition on its east side, along Prescott Street. A new glazed rooftop structure bridges the old and the new. The rooftop addition, designed with sensitivity to surrounding historic structures, allows controlled natural light to enter into the conservation lab, study centers and galleries, as well as the courtyard below. Courtesy of RPBW, Payette РPhotographs : Nic Lehoux, Michel Denanc̩
The original 1920?s building by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbot Architects, was the first of its kind, combining museum space, teaching and conservation in one facility to promote scholarship. Following this tradition, the new centre is designed to make the collection of 250,000 objects more accessible for teaching and learning.
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All post-1925 additions and alterations have been demolished to make way for the new extension o...