Oct 16, 2009Top University News

Art Museum reopens after $2 million renovation

by UVAToday

TOPICS: Arts & Entertainment, Visual Arts, Grounds & Buildings,

After a $2 million, five-month renovation project, the University of Virginia Art Museum reopens Saturday. The renovation provides more flexible exhibition space, new classrooms that will provide teaching and learning space for departments that use the museum as an academic resource, and climate control and lighting systems.

Museum staff moved back into the museum in late August and began staging three exhibitions: “Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village: The Creation of An Architectural Masterpiece,” “The Expanding Eye: Art Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe” and “Abstract Photography: Selections from Glenstone.” All will be on view through Jan. 3.

“The Jefferson exhibition is an appropriate one with which to reopen what is virtually a new building,” museum director Bruce Boucher said. “It’s going back to the origins of the University itself and to the importance for Thomas Jefferson of the fine arts, particularly architecture, in creating a proper ambience for study, reflection and spiritual and architectural growth.”

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