Currier Museum of Art

Our Campus Master Plan for the Currier Museum resulted in the renovation and expansion of the Museum building, making it more visible and accessible, attracting an expanded and more diverse audience. Encompasses two city blocks, the redesigned Museum campus introduces new arrival, parking, and outdoor spaces for sculpture and events.

The original 1929 Museum building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was extensively renovated. An addition offers a fresh interpretation of the original building’s restrained classicism. Constructed with a granite base and band of glazing to light lower-level areas, it is clad with a terracotta rainscreen system, zinc metal trim, and a filtered glass curtainwall.

Three new galleries surround an indoor Winter Garden, a light-filled, year-round café and events space, one wall of which is the façade of the original building. A raked floor, 200-seat auditorium was created on the lower level. The interior materials vocabulary is simple and direct, with stained masonry flooring, wood, and glass detailing.