Capital improvements planned for the Atlanta History Museum will affect over 37,000 square feet of the building, including the creation of a new West Paces Ferry Road entrance façade and enlarged 5,300-square-foot atrium, an updating of the museum’s public spaces and the addition of new connections within the building.“We want to have a face on West Paces Ferry that reads that we’re running a museum,” said Sheffield Hale, president and CEO of the History Center. “It’s not apparent what’s here now. We want it to (convey), ‘Open all the time — public space.’”
The transformation will be paid for with $21.1 million raised in a just-completed capital campaign, easily the largest in the august institution’s 88-year history.Other aspects will include the shifting of the front entrance so that it leads straight into the corridor housing most of the museum’s permanent exhibits. Their sheet-rocked entry walls will be opened up with floor-to-ceiling glass. bookstore-bistro, also glass-fronted, will be added beside the main entrance, accessible without admission. And the lobby/atrium will be expanded to 5,300 square feet to better accommodate center and private functions.
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