Museums - A Photo Thread - Page 3

geomorph · #41 Posted **Feb 27, 2011, 6:04 AM**

Museum: National World War I Museum (housed in the Liberty Memorial)
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Architect: H. Van Buren Moganigle (Liberty Memorial), ASAI Architects (Museum)
Completed: 1924 (Liberty Memorial), 2006 (Museum)

Museum: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: James Ingo Freed
Completed: 1993

Museum: Holocaust Museum Houston, Morgan Family Center
Location: Houston, Texas
Architect: Ralph Appelbaum
Completed: 1996

Museum: Canadian War Museum
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Architect: Moriyama & Teshima Architects and Griffith Rankin Cook Architects
Completed: 2005

All photos taken by geomorph in 2008, 2009, and 2010.

Bedhead · #42 Posted **Feb 27, 2011, 9:50 AM**

Love those deco details on the WWI museum.

A couple of shots from inside the Natural History Museum, London:

my pics

geomorph · #43 Posted **Mar 1, 2011, 1:56 AM**

Museum: Indiana State Museum
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Architect: RATIO Architects
Completed: 2002

Museum: Minnesota History Center
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Architect: Hammel, Green, and Abrahamson
Completed: 1992

Museum: Texas State History Museum
Location: Austin, Texas
Architect: Verner Johnson
Completed: 2001

Museum: Washington State History Museum
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Architect: Charles Moore and Arthur Andersson
Completed: 1996

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009 and 2010.

glowrock · #44 Posted **Mar 1, 2011, 2:41 AM**

Damn, this thread is AWESOME!!!

Awesome shots everyone, especially geomorph. Wow, you've gotten around!

Aaron (Glowrock)

geomorph · #45 Posted **Mar 1, 2011, 3:41 AM**

Bedhead, that museum looks great, I like the iron barrel vault supports mixed with the neo-Gothic stonework.

glowrock, thanks for the compliment, yes I have done alot of traveling in the past 4 years!

geomorph · #46 Posted **Mar 1, 2011, 4:42 AM**

Museum: Newseum
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: James Stewart Polshek
Completed: 2008 (Closed 2019)

Museum: Seattle Art Museum, New Wing
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Brad Cloepfil
Completed: 2008

Museum: Tacoma Art Museum
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Architect: Antoine Predock
Completed: 2003

Museum: Centre des Sciences de Montreal
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Architect: Daoust Lestage
Completed: 2000

Museum: Gardiner Museum
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Architect: Keith Wagland (Original), KPMB Architects (Renovation)
Completed: 1984 (Original), 2006 (Renovation)

Museum: Maryland Science Center, Additions
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Architect: Design Collective
Completed: 2004

Museum: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Location: Houston, Texas
Architect: Gunnar Birkerts
Completed: 1970, Renovated 1997

Museum: The College Basketball Experience
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Architect: Edward Schlossberg Inc.
Completed: 2007

Museum: MCA Denver
Location: Denver, Colorado
Architect: Adjaye Associates
Completed: 2007

Removed old image, see post #131 of this thread for this museum.

Museum: MoMA, Additions & Renovation
Location: New York City, New York
Architect: Yoshio Tanaguchi
Completed: 2004

All photos taken by geomorph in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.

geomorph · #47 Posted **Mar 3, 2011, 2:43 AM**

Museum: San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum (housed in Federal Building)
Location: San Diego, California
Architect: Juan Larrinaga
Completed: 1935

Old image removed, see post #122 of this thread for this museum.

Museum: Norton Museum of Art (original building)
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Architect: Marion Sims Wyeth
Completed: 1941

Museum: The Wolfsonian-FIU
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Architect: ?
Completed: 1927, renovated 1992

Old images removed, see post #311 of this thread for this museum.

Museum: The Durham Museum (housed in former Union Station)
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Architect: Gilbert Stanley Underwood
Completed: 1931

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009.

Alpha · #48 Posted **Mar 4, 2011, 1:42 PM**

In my opinion it is much more important that a museum spend more money in its collection than for an expensive building. Visitors pay for the objects, which are in the museum and not for viewing the building!
It is very important that a museum building is very stable and safe of flooding in order to protect well the objects in it.

Sometimes a museum was erected at a historical site in a building, which has a more or less content with the presented objects. Here two examples of Germany:

Historisch-Technisches Informationszentrum Peenemünde, situated in and around former Peenemünde Power Station

Sendermuseum Königs Wusterhausen, situated in former transmitter building of Königs Wusterhausen transmitter

( http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8817322 )

geomorph · #49 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 7:26 PM**

Alpha, yes I like when museums inhabit historic buildings that originally had a purpose similar to the theme of the museum objects presented. However, I like really expensive purpose-built museums where the architecture is an attraction as well!

geomorph · #50 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 7:33 PM**

Museum: National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Architect: David M. Schwarz
Completed: 2002

Photo taken by geomorph in 2009.

geomorph · #51 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 7:50 PM**

Museum: Science Museum of Minnesota
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Architect: Ellerbe Becket
Completed: 1999

All photos taken by geomorph in 2010.

geomorph · #52 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 8:11 PM**

Museum: Bishop Museum, Science Adventure Center
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Architect: CDS International
Completed: 2005

All photos taken by geomorph in 2008.

geomorph · #53 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 8:27 PM**

Museum: Boston Children's Museum, Expansion
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Architect: Cambridge Seven Associates
Completed: 2007

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009.

geomorph · #54 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 10:29 PM**

Museum: National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Architect: Boora Architects
Completed: 2004

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009.

geomorph · #55 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 10:39 PM**

Museum: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (renovation and addition)
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Architect: Will Bruder
Completed: 1999

All photos taken by geomorph in 2010.

geomorph · #56 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 10:54 PM**

Museum: Origen Experience
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Architect: Tate Snyder Kimsey Architects
Completed: 2007

Old images removed, see post #153 of this thread for this museum.

geomorph · #57 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 11:19 PM**

Museum: Hirshhorn Museum
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: Gordon Bunshaft
Completed: 1974

All photos taken by geomorph in 2008.

geomorph · #58 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 11:32 PM**

Museum: Kimbell Art Museum
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Architect: Louis I. Kahn
Completed: 1972

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009.

geomorph · #59 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 11:48 PM**

Museum: Oakland Museum of California (photos from before the recent renovation)
Location: Oakland, California
Architect: Kevin Roche
Completed: 1969

For more recent photos of the museum's interior, see post #125 https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...&postcount=125 of this thread.

All photos taken by geomorph in 2007.

geomorph · #60 Posted **Mar 5, 2011, 11:54 PM**

Museum: Amon Carter Museum of American Art (original building)
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Architect: Philip Johnson
Completed: 1961

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009.