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]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 > > ========================================================= > Important Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at > http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed > information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail > message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should > read "help" (without the quotes). > > If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to > [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read > "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). > ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).