Museums SET to OPEN in America

If you do not have an opportunity to view artwork in its original location, a museum is the best place to go! Architects in recent years have started constructing museums to be works of art in an among themselves. Frank Gehry is the architect that comes to mind as the embodiment of such a concept. When one views Gehry's masterpieces, they are in AWE!when walks INTO one of his masterpieces, they are in AWE of the treasures contained within the carefully designed walls!
(The building pictured here is The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute, a health care facility and not a museum.)

One museum that is in the application for permit process is the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum in the San Francisco Bay Area. The vision for this museum is to be a Beaux Arts style building to house digital arts and traditional arts under one roof. According to the article, the building will be pitched to Chicago if the Bay Area does not approve it.

The ASPEN ART MUSEUM is set to open in August of 2014. The building is a take on the Center Pompidou in Paris as it appears to be turned inside out!

The renowned architect Renzo Piano, creator of the Center Pompidou in Paris and the California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park, is working on a renovation and expansion of Harvard University's Art Museum. Details of the project to be completed in the fall of 2014 can be found here.

Philanthropist Eli Broad just watched a museum bearing his name be constructed at his alma mater, Michigan State University. He is giving back to his adopted home town and commissioning a new museum, The Brodd, for Los Angeles. The building, perhaps inspired by a honeycomb, opens in 2014.

Museums themselves are becoming works of art. It appears that architects are trying to create a lasting work of art to hose the lasting works art on display.

Include these new museums in your 2014 travel plans! Perhsps I will see you there!