There are two striking examples of contemporary art museums here in the 
Northeast located in old industrial complexes: MASS MoCA in the old Sprague 
electric plant in North Adams, MA, (www.massmoca.org) and DIABeacon in an 
old Nabisco factory right on the Hudson River in Beacon, NY 
(http://www.diacenter.org/bindex.html).

Maureen Hart Hennessey
Independent Curator and Grant Writer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Koenig" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] examples of great building retrofits


> 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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