Monterey Bay Aquarium adapted some industrial buildings.
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, CA was once Venice City  
Hall (thus beating politics into poetics).
The Marylou and George Boone Gallery at the Huntington Library,... was  
a garage building.
The old May Co. building at LACMA.
The Gallery of Modern Art at the Tate Museum in London was once a  
power station.

On Aug 21, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Heather Cochran wrote:

> I would love to hear from anyone who knows of a successful or  
> striking museum or cultural space in a building that once housed  
> something completely unrelated.
>
> For example, the Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) in Long Beach  
> was created by the retrofit of a roller-rink. The MOCA's Geffen  
> Contemporary in Los Angeles is housed in a building which used to be  
> a hardware store and later, a police car garage.
>
> Surely, there are many others. Which do you think are the best  
> building "re-imagingings"  out there?
>
> Thanks,
> Heather Cochran
> Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

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