Museums - A Photo Thread - Page 2

trueviking · #1 Posted **Feb 20, 2011, 4:35 AM**

winnipeg art gallery....1970.

http://wag.ca/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanscott/5105906161/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nilomanalo/4437165906/

winnipeg.......canadian museum for human rights U/C.

http://www.predock.com/CMHR/CMHRETop.jpg

geomorph · #2 Posted **Feb 20, 2011, 10:59 PM**

trueviking, the Winnipeg Art Gallery looks mildly similar to the forms of I.M. Pei's National Gallery of Art East Building, pictured earlier.

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights has been designed by Antoine Predock...I have pictures of his ASU Art Museum, which is quite different from this one being built, I will post them soon.

geomorph · #3 Posted **Feb 20, 2011, 11:12 PM**

Museum: ASU Art Museum (part of the Nelson Fine Arts Center)
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Architect: Antoine Predock
Completed: 1989

All photos taken by geomorph in 2010.

trueviking · #4 Posted **Feb 22, 2011, 4:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by geomorph

trueviking, the Winnipeg Art Gallery looks mildly similar to the forms of I.M. Pei's National Gallery of Art East Building, pictured earlier.

good eye...

there has long been debate in winnipeg about that...the WAG was designed 5 years before the washington gallery....there is some anecdotal evidence that Pei was aware for the building before he designed his.

most people in winnipeg assume that ours was inspired by the washington gallery but it is actually likely the other way around.

geomorph · #5 Posted **Feb 23, 2011, 2:24 AM**

Museum: Nasher Sculpture Center
Location: Dallas, Texas
Architect: Renzo Piano
Completed: 2003

Removed old images, see post #110 in this thread for this museum.

geomorph · #6 Posted **Feb 24, 2011, 2:20 AM**

Museum: Smithsonian Institution Building (Original Building, known as 'The Castle')
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: James Renwick Jr.
Completed: 1849-55

All photos taken by geomorph in 2008.

Bedhead · #7 Posted **Feb 27, 2011, 9:50 AM**

Love those deco details on the WWI museum.

A couple of shots from inside the Natural History Museum, London:

my pics

geomorph · #8 Posted **Mar 1, 2011, 1:56 AM**

Museum: Indiana State Museum
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Architect: RATIO Architects
Completed: 2002

Museum: Minnesota History Center
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Architect: Hammel, Green, and Abrahamson
Completed: 1992

Museum: Texas State History Museum
Location: Austin, Texas
Architect: Verner Johnson
Completed: 2001

Museum: Washington State History Museum
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Architect: Charles Moore and Arthur Andersson
Completed: 1996

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009 and 2010.

glowrock · #9 Posted **Mar 1, 2011, 2:41 AM**

Damn, this thread is AWESOME!!!

Awesome shots everyone, especially geomorph. Wow, you've gotten around!

Aaron (Glowrock)

geomorph · #10 Posted **Mar 1, 2011, 3:41 AM**

Bedhead, that museum looks great, I like the iron barrel vault supports mixed with the neo-Gothic stonework.

glowrock, thanks for the compliment, yes I have done alot of traveling in the past 4 years!

geomorph · #11 Posted **Mar 1, 2011, 4:42 AM**

Museum: Newseum
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: James Stewart Polshek
Completed: 2008 (Closed 2019)

Museum: Seattle Art Museum, New Wing
Location: Seattle, Washington
Architect: Brad Cloepfil
Completed: 2008

Museum: Tacoma Art Museum
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Architect: Antoine Predock
Completed: 2003

Museum: Centre des Sciences de Montreal
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Architect: Daoust Lestage
Completed: 2000

Museum: Gardiner Museum
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Architect: Keith Wagland (Original), KPMB Architects (Renovation)
Completed: 1984 (Original), 2006 (Renovation)

Museum: Maryland Science Center, Additions
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Architect: Design Collective
Completed: 2004

Museum: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Location: Houston, Texas
Architect: Gunnar Birkerts
Completed: 1970, Renovated 1997

Museum: The College Basketball Experience
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Architect: Edward Schlossberg Inc.
Completed: 2007

Museum: MCA Denver
Location: Denver, Colorado
Architect: Adjaye Associates
Completed: 2007

Removed old image, see post #131 of this thread for this museum.

Museum: MoMA, Additions & Renovation
Location: New York City, New York
Architect: Yoshio Tanaguchi
Completed: 2004

All photos taken by geomorph in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.

geomorph · #12 Posted **Mar 3, 2011, 2:43 AM**

Museum: San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum (housed in Federal Building)
Location: San Diego, California
Architect: Juan Larrinaga
Completed: 1935

Old image removed, see post #122 of this thread for this museum.

Museum: Norton Museum of Art (original building)
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Architect: Marion Sims Wyeth
Completed: 1941

Museum: The Wolfsonian-FIU
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Architect: ?
Completed: 1927, renovated 1992

Old images removed, see post #311 of this thread for this museum.

Museum: The Durham Museum (housed in former Union Station)
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Architect: Gilbert Stanley Underwood
Completed: 1931

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009.

Alpha · #13 Posted **Mar 4, 2011, 1:42 PM**

In my opinion it is much more important that a museum spend more money in its collection than for an expensive building. Visitors pay for the objects, which are in the museum and not for viewing the building!
It is very important that a museum building is very stable and safe of flooding in order to protect well the objects in it.

Sometimes a museum was erected at a historical site in a building, which has a more or less content with the presented objects. Here two examples of Germany:

Historisch-Technisches Informationszentrum Peenemünde, situated in and around former Peenemünde Power Station

Sendermuseum Königs Wusterhausen, situated in former transmitter building of Königs Wusterhausen transmitter

( http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8817322 )

simms3_redux · #14 Posted **Mar 7, 2011, 11:20 PM**

Keep it going please!

I am LOVING this thread. I will try to post a few pictures up when I get the chance.

geomorph · #15 Posted **Mar 8, 2011, 1:01 AM**

Museum: Honolulu Academy of Arts (original building)
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Architect: Bertram G. Goodhue
Completed: 1927

All photos taken by geomorph in 2008.

geomorph · #16 Posted **Mar 8, 2011, 1:10 AM**

Museum: Heard Museum
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Architect: ? (assumed various)
Completed: 1929-99

All photos taken by geomorph in 2010.

geomorph · #17 Posted **Mar 8, 2011, 3:17 AM**

Museum: Pueblo Grande Museum
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Architect: ?
Completed: 1974, 1995 expansion

All photos taken by geomorph in 2010.

geomorph · #18 Posted **Mar 12, 2011, 12:21 AM**

Museum: National Gallery of Canada
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Architect: Moshe Safdie
Completed: 1988

All photos taken by geomorph in 2008.

whatnext · #19 Posted **Nov 19, 2017, 8:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by geomorph

Museum: Honolulu Academy of Arts (original building)
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Architect: Bertram G. Goodhue
Completed: 1927

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I'm late to this thread, thanks Geomorph for keeping it going, it's great.

For anyone visiting Honolulu I'd highly recommend visiting this museum. Such and unexpected delight, too many tourists pass on downtown Honolulu. A great museum in a great building. Book a guided trip to Doris Duke's Shangri-La in Kahala and the museum entry is included.

geomorph · #20 Posted **Nov 19, 2017, 8:36 PM**

whatnext, thanks for enjoying the thread, when I visited Honolulu in 2008 I went on the Shangri-La tour and it was well worth the effort...what a gorgeous seaside setting! I only have a few photos of it, I seem to remember that photography was not allowed in the interior. Since it is now a house museum, I'll include the photos here, I'm realizing there may be some other house museums I have pictures of that have not made an appearance in this thread.