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Old Posted Mar 6, 2011, 1:07 AM
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Museum: Phoenix Children's Museum
Location: Downtown Phoenix, AZ
Architect: Norman Marsh (Los Angeles)
Completed: 1913 as the Monroe school. Renovated and reopened in 2008 as the Children's Museum of Phoenix





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This one is under construction but I'm very excited about it:
Museum: Scottsdale Museum of the West
Location: Old Town Scottsdale, AZ
Architect: Eddie Jones/Jones Studio
Completion: 2012





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Museum: ASU Art Museum (part of the Nelson Fine Arts Center)
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Architect: Antoine Predock
Completed: 1989
Ug this building is so hideous, one of the worst on ASUs campus. Predock also did the Arizona Science Center in Downtown Phoenix, its very similar to this and equally brutalist, ugly and ill fitting for its setting and climate. That guy is one of my least favorite 'starchitects.'
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Old Posted Mar 6, 2011, 1:39 AM
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HooverDam, I agree that the ASU Art Museum is an unfriendly edifice! I have a few photos of his Arizona Science Center, which was under renovation when I visited last November:

Museum: Arizona Science Center
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Architect: Antoine Predock
Completed: 1997





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Old Posted Mar 6, 2011, 8:12 PM
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Mediterranean Revivalism

Museum: Ripley's Believe It Or Not! (housed in Warden Castle)
Location: St. Augustine, Florida
Architect: ?
Completed: 1887



Museum: Lightner Museum (housed in original Hotel Alcazar and shares building with City Hall)
Location: St. Augustine, Florida
Architect: Carrere and Hastings
Completed: 1887









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Old Posted Mar 7, 2011, 11:20 PM
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Keep it going please! I am LOVING this thread. I will try to post a few pictures up when I get the chance.
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Old Posted Mar 8, 2011, 1:01 AM
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Museum: Honolulu Academy of Arts (original building)
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Architect: Bertram G. Goodhue
Completed: 1927













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Old Posted Mar 8, 2011, 1:10 AM
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Museum: Heard Museum
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Architect: ? (assumed various)
Completed: 1929-99







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Old Posted Mar 8, 2011, 3:17 AM
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Museum: Pueblo Grande Museum
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Architect: ?
Completed: 1974, 1995 expansion













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Old Posted Mar 12, 2011, 12:21 AM
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Museum: National Gallery of Canada
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Architect: Moshe Safdie
Completed: 1988















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Museum: Pointe A Calliere Museum, Eperon Building
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Architect: Dan Hanganu
Completed: 1992

















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Museum: Musee de la Civilisation
Location: Quebec City, Quebec
Architect: Belzile, Brassard, Galienne, Lavoie & Sungur Incesulu and Moshe Safdie, Desnoyers and Mercure
Completed: 1988









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Old Posted Mar 12, 2011, 1:54 AM
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Museum: The Bata Shoe Museum
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Architect: Raymond Moriyama
Completed: 1995









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Museum: Independence Seaport Museum
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Architect: Reed Axelrod Architects
Completed: 1995











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Museum: Phoenix Art Museum
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Architect: Alden Dow and Blaine Drake (1959 original and 1965 addition), Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (1996 and 2006 additions)
Completed: 1959-2006



















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Bright and Small-scale

Museum: Bass Museum of Art, New Wing
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Architect: Arata Isozaki
Completed: 2001







Museum: Children's Museum of Denver
Location: Denver, Colorado
Architect: Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture
Completed: 1984



Museum: The Museo Alameda
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Architect: Jackson & Ryan Architects
Completed: 2007





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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:
Sometimes, though, a great building can be a museum's best marketing tool, and it can become a great marketing tool for a city as a whole, which is important because it's often cities that invest in the museums.

I agree that it's good when museums are used to give a new lease of life to an old building, and use the building almost as one of the exhibits. This train museum in Swindon, England is housed in an old train factory.



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Museum: Hockey Hall of Fame (housed in former Bank of Montreal)
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Architect: Frank Darling and S. George Curry (bank)
Completed: ? (bank), 1993 (museum)









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Old Posted Dec 1, 2012, 7:21 PM
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Museum: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (housed in former Central Library)
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: George W. Kelham (Original Building), Gae Aulenti (restoration and modern additions)
Completed: 1917 (Central Library), 2003 (museum)













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Museum: Biltmore House
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Architect: Richard Morris Hunt
Completed: 1895







Aerial view (Source.)



Museum: Smith-McDowell House Museum
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Architect: Unknown -- possibly Ephraim Clayton
Completed: c. 1840


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Museum: Asheville Art Museum (Pack Library wing)
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Architect: Edward Tilton
Completed: 1925







A 16th Century frieze that decorates the lobby.



Museum: Asheville Art Museum (Pack Place wing)
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Architect: Barbara Field
Completed: 1992

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Museum: Hunter Museum of American Art (Faxon-Thomas Mansion)
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee
Architect: Mead and Garfield Firm
Completed: 1904









Museum: Hunter Museum of American Art (1970's wing)
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee
Architect: Derthick, Henley and Wilkerson Firm
Completed: 1975





Museum: Hunter Museum of American Art (2005 wing)
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee
Architect: Randall Stout
Completed: 2005





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Museum: Florence Museum of Art, Science, and History
Location: Florence, South Carolina
Architect: Sanborn Chase
Completed: 1939







Museum: Greenville County Museum of Art
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Architect: Craig Gaulden Davis Firm
Completed: 1974

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