Bowdoin College Museum Of Art Expands

Long recognized as one of the nation’s finest college art museums, located in a landmark building, the renovated and expanded Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, reopened last October to much acclaim. Impressed visitors have called the revamped facility “elegant and beautiful” and a model for restoring an historic museum building. The ambitious, $20.8 million project begun in 2003 is part of a $250 million Bowdoin campaign aimed at upgrading the entire campus. With holdings ranging from the ancient world to the Twenty-First Century, and housed in a building designed by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead and White, the augmented museum will be an even more valuable resource for the college, community and art world in general. The renovation and underground expansion increases the museum’s total space 63 percent — from 19,980 to 32,500 square feet —and expands the number of galleries from nine to 14.The new complex, says Katy Kline, the museum’s director, “celebrates our role as a leader in college art museums and our mission to broaden knowledge and inspire all our visitors.” ...Read More