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6:52 p.m. • 6-19-13

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North Carolina Museum of Art Categories: Music, Arts, Families & Parenting, Community, Free2110 Blue Ridge Rd., Raleigh, NC 27607 (919) 839-6262 http://www.ncartmuseum.org/

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The North Carolina Museum of Art— first major art museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding—is in the final stages of its expansion. The centerpiece of the expansion initiative is a new 127,000-square-foot, light-filled building designed by New York-based architects Thomas Phifer and Partners. The single-story structure, surrounded by sculpture gardens and beautiful pools was created specifically to showcase the Museum’s outstanding permanent collection of more than 5,000 objects spanning antiquity to the present day.

On the occasion of the expansion, the Museum has acquired more than 100 new works of art. Representing commissions, gifts, and purchases, the new works encompass important and diverse examples of historic and contemporary art from around the world, and will be installed in the Museum’s new building and the surrounding landscape. Highlights include a gift of 28 sculptures by Auguste Rodin, and work by such internationally acclaimed artists as Roxy Paine, Ursula von Rydingsvard, El Anatsui, Jaume Plensa, Jackie Ferrara, Ellsworth Kelly, and David Park, among others.

The expansion project will also transform the Museum’s 1983 East Building, designed by the eminent architect Edward Durell Stone, into a dynamic center for temporary exhibitions, education and public programs, and public events, as well as a place for collections management and other administrative functions.

In December 2006 the Museum officially broke ground, and the new building is scheduled to open to the public on April 24. Upon completion, the 164-acre campus will be the nation’s largest art museum park, with walking paths, bike trails, ecological projects conceived with artists, and site-specific commissioned works of art in a rolling green landscape.

Read more about the museum's historic expansion.

See what the museum director has to say about the new gallery building.

 

Upcoming Events

Wanderlust: Photographs by Alec Soth
Wed, Jun 19: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Thu, Jun 20: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Fri, Jun 21: 10 a.m. till 9 p.m.
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Dwelling: Interiors by Page H. Laughlin and Pamela Pecchio
Wed, Jun 19: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Thu, Jun 20: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Fri, Jun 21: 10 a.m. till 9 p.m.
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0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art
Wed, Jun 19: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Thu, Jun 20: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Fri, Jun 21: 10 a.m. till 9 p.m.
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Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum
Wed, Jun 19: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Thu, Jun 20: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Fri, Jun 21: 10 a.m. till 9 p.m.
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The Birds of America
Wed, Jun 19: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Thu, Jun 20: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Fri, Jun 21: 10 a.m. till 9 p.m.
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Rodin Court and Garden
Wed, Jun 19: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Thu, Jun 20: 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Fri, Jun 21: 10 a.m. till 9 p.m.
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Shannon A. Jun 13, 2013
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The NCMA is one of those places that I always go to when: (a) I want to decompress and have some stress-free "me" time, (b) when we have visitors in town... (more)
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Sarah S. May 2, 2013
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I had a wonderful time visiting this museum yesterday. I will admit, its the first time I've had a truly good time since moving to Raleigh over a month ago,... (more)
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Stephen D. Feb 28, 2013
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Really lovely space inside. It's cool to see extremely old sculptures and paintings in a bright wooden box that is the museum. It's free, which is really... (more)

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