Museums - A Photo Thread

[geomorph]

Museum: Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards and Geppi's Entertainment Museum (both closed)
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Architect: Niernsee and Neilson, Joseph F. Kemp
Completed: 1867 (as Camden Station), 2005-6 (as museums)



Photo taken by geomorph in 2008.

[geomorph]

Museum: Old Red Museum (closed, will revert back to a courthouse soon)
Location: Dallas, Texas
Architect: Orlopp & Kusener
Completed: 1892 (as Dallas County Courthouse), 2007 (as museum)







All photos taken by geomorph in 2013.

[geomorph]

Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Architect: Farshid Moussavi
Completed: 2012

















All photos taken by geomorph in 2021.

[geomorph]

Museum: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Architect: I. M. Pei
Completed: 1995

For previous coverage of this museum, see post #15 https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...1&postcount=15 of this thread.































All photos taken by geomorph in 2021.

[geomorph]

Museum: The New Children's Museum
Location: San Diego, California
Architect: Rob Wellington Quigley Architects
Completed: 2008





All photos taken by geomorph in 2014.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by geomorph

Museum: The New Children's Museum
Location: San Diego, California
Architect: Rob Wellington Quigley Architects
Completed: 2008



All photos taken by geomorph in 2014.

Interesting, it doesn't look very "childlike" or whimsical as I would expect!

[geomorph]

Museum: Seattle Arts Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Weiss/Manfredi
Completed: 2007

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2009.

[whatnext]

Museum: Museum Werdenfels (The Museum of Werdenfelserland)
Location: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
Architect: Extension: Atelier Lüps
Completed: Original 17th century, Extension 2019

Regional museums in historic buildings are nothing new but Museum Werdenfels incorporates a simple and elegant modern extension, surrounded by the beauty of the Bavarian Alps.

Original merchants house incorporating the museum.

[IMG]IMG_3256 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]

Traditional Bavarian folk/religious art.
[IMG]IMG_3252 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]IMG_3255 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]

Gallery extension
[IMG]IMG_3245 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]IMG_3246 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]

View from extension:
[IMG]IMG_3248 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]

Showing the same window from outside and new extension
[IMG]IMG_3269 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]IMG_3270 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]

(my photos)

[geomorph]

Originally Posted by whatnext

View from extension:
[IMG]IMG_3248 by bcborn, on Flickr[/IMG]

I always like to see a museum that takes advantage of its location rather than looking exclusively inward!

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by geomorph

I always like to see a museum that takes advantage of its location rather than looking exclusively inward!

Yep, when you have a view of Germany's highest peak, the Zugspitze, you don't waste it! I thought it was great the walkway and window were clearly a feature built for that purpose.

[geomorph]

Museum: Seattle Art Museum
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates (original building), Brad Cloepfil (addition as part of Russell Investments Center)
Completed: 1991 (original building), 2008 (addition)

For previous coverage of this museum, see post #46 https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...8&postcount=46 of this thread.

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2022.

[geomorph]

Museum: Seattle Asian Art Museum
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Bebb and Gould (original building), LMN Architects (renovation and expansion)
Completed: 1933 (original building), 2020 (renovation and expansion)

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2022.

[bilbao58]

Originally Posted by geomorph

Museum: Seattle Asian Art Museum
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Bebb and Gould (original building), LMN Architects (renovation and expansion)
Completed: 1933 (original building), 2020 (renovation and expansion)


All photos taken by geomorph in 2022.

My mom (on the left) and her sister on one of the camels, circa 1948. They both were born and raised in Everett, WA.

[geomorph]

Fun historic shot of Seattle Asian Art Museum, it was simply the Seattle Art Museum for many years until the newer downtown location was built. I should have taken a close up of a camel!

[geomorph]

Museum: Henry Art Gallery
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Bebb and Gould (original building), Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects (expansion)
Completed: 1927 (original building), 1997 (expansion)

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2022.

[bilbao58]

Museum: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Location: Houston, Texas
Architect: Steven Holl
Completed:2020

Some photos that didn’t make it the first time around.

Tunnel under the Noguchi sculpture garden connecting the Glassell School of Art with
the new Kinder Builder addition to MFAH, both Steven Holl.


Tunnel from Glassell School to Kinder Building on Flickr


Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Flickr


Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Flickr


Ólafur Elíasson’s “Sometimes an underground movement is an illuminated bridge” on Flickr


Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Flickr


Tunnel from Kinder Building to Caroline Weiss Law Building (Mies van der Rohe) on Flickr


Carlos Cruz-Diez's "Cromosaturación MFAH" on Flickr

[geomorph]

Museum: Chihuly Garden and Glass
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: ORA
Completed: 2012

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2022.

[geomorph]

Museum: Frye Art Museum
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: ? (original building), Rick Sundberg (renovation and expansion)
Completed: 1952 (original building), 1997 (renovation and expansion)





























All photos taken by geomorph in 2022.

[geomorph]

Museum: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Olson Kundig (part of a larger NBBJ-designed campus)
Completed: 2011

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2022.

[geomorph]

Museum: Burke Museum
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Olson Kundig
Completed: 2018

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2022.