Dear Ms Coghlan,

An excellent contact would be Noah Matalon, Director of Capital
Improvements at El Museo del Barrio in New York,
http://www.elmuseo.org/new/.  El Museo is housed in the Heckscher
Building in East Harlem, New York City, a former orphange built in 1920.
Within this protected building, El Museo has built a temperature and
humidity insulated museum with a new HVAC independent of the building's
antiquated system, excellent lighting systems, and beautiful modern
galleries.

Another helpful resource, an architect who designed El Museo's first
metamorphosis, and who has  produced award-winning designs that
transformed 80 year old commercial spaces in Chelsea into elegant
galleries, is Jonathan Marvel, Rogers Marvel Architects, 145 Hudson
Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013.  The firm's phone number is
(212)941-6718 and web page is located at http://www.rogersmarvel.com/.
Jonathan's firm is also involved in the exciting architectural changes
going on right now at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Good Luck!

Oliver Hirsch
Hirsch & Associates Fine Art Services, Inc.
New York

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