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In 1995, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art finally got a home of its own. When it first opened in 1935, it was the only modern-art museum in the western U.S.
Its collection grew to include works by most of the world's best-known modern painters, as well as an
extensive collection of photographs. But for 60 years, it had been squeezed into two cramped floors of the city's War Memorial
veterans' Building. The new $62 million museum has four levels of light-filled galleries. The total gallery space is 50,000 square feet nearly the size of a football field.
From outside, the new museum is imposing and unusual-looking. Designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta, it is a series of stepped blocks, with a cylindrical tower set in the middle. Inside, a black granite staircase leads up to the galleries. There are seven galleries in all, one reached by a bridge suspended 75 feet
above the lobby. Skylights and soaring ceilings create the effect of a cathedral.
With so much space, the new museum has room to display not only its own collections of art, but traveling art collections too. It can also present performance art that incorporates dance and theater. |
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