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Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
The newly remodeled museum opened in 2005 at nearly twice its former size, providing more gallery space, better facilities for education outreach programs, a café, a larger museum store, and special-event spaces.
Cost:
$14.2 million
Funding:
$7.84 million in private gifts; $6.36 million in state bonds.
Timetable:
- Groundbreaking: September 2002
- Reopening: January 2005
Project Highlights:
The art museum construction project more than doubled the museum’s square footage, adding gallery space and other facilities that allow more diverse visiting exhibits, better display of the museum’s collections, and more educational opportunities for UO students, Oregon schoolchildren, and the public.
Features:
- Collections galleries featuring American, European, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese art
- Changing Exhibitions Gallery totaling nearly 4,000 square feet
- Educational suite, containing an interactive discovery gallery, art studio and lecture hall
- New Marché Museum Café and enlarged Museum Store
- Reception hall, available for public rental
- Transformed infrastructure enabling the museum to host major traveling exhibitions
- Fully accessible museum that is Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)- compliant
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