NEW YORK | New Statue of Liberty Musem

[streetscaper]

Bigger Museum Will Give Lady Liberty’s Crowds More to Do Than Snap Selfies
NYTimes
ArchPaper

The project, a $70 million museum, is intended to make the visitors’ time on Liberty Island more meaningful, more enjoyable and perhaps less crowded. The museum, to be announced at a ceremony on Thursday, has been designed to absorb the crush of people arriving on ferries that dock every 20 to 30 minutes.

Stephen A. Briganti, the president and chief executive of the private Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, said the new museum would do what the current one, in a former fort beneath the base of the statue, does, but on a larger and more accessible scale: tell the story of one of the world’s most famous symbols.

...He said the new building would have a green roof. Part of it will be planted with wildflowers; part will serve as a raised viewing platform, with the statue on one side and the Manhattan skyline on another.

...The statue’s original torch, replaced in the 1980s, will be installed in a glass-walled space, a stark contrast with its windowless home in the current museum. The new setting will let visitors look at that torch and its replacement at the same time.

Delivery: 2019

[craighaynes]

The construction of the brand new Statue of Liberty Museum. When this new museum opens, it will be the most monumental addition to Liberty Island since the Statue herself. More than that, it will allow millions more visitors to enjoy the Statue of Liberty experience and be inspired by her history and message of freedom and opportunity.

[C.]

Just to be clear, what's happening to the old museum, if anything? I'm rather fond of it. This addition is welcomed, but I would not want to see a significant number of exhibits moved from the old museum. The new museum looks like a better home for torch, however.