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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 31, 2010
PRESS CONTACT:
Andrea Potochniak
607 254-4563
arp37@cornell.edu
Renovations to Begin at the Johnson Museum
Ithaca, NY—The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University will begin planned renovations to its fifth-floor galleries of Asian art this spring.
To accommodate the renovations, the three floors of permanent collection galleries will be temporarily reorganized. Beginning Tuesday, April 20, the first-floor galleries of European art and the second-floor galleries of American art will be closed to the public. Beginning Tuesday, May 11, the fifth-floor galleries of Asian art will be closed.
On Tuesday, May 25, the first and second floors will reopen with new displays of American, Asian, and European art. The lobby and two floors below it will remain open, with three new exhibitions: Michael Ashkin (April 3–July 11), Nature Observed and Imagined: Five Hundred Years of Chinese Painting (April 10–June 13), and Bodies Unbound: The Classical and Grotesque (April 10–June 13). Metered parking is available in a lot next to the Museum. Visit our website, museum.cornell.edu, for additional information and program schedules.
The renovated Asian art galleries are scheduled to reopen in 2011, with 50 percent more exhibition space, a new gallery for modern Asian art, and computer stations specifically for study of the Asian collection. The renovation of the Asian art galleries is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Museum’s new wing is scheduled to open to the public in 2011. The Museum’s campaign has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kresge Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and private donations.
The Johnson Museum has a permanent collection of over 30,000 works of art from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. The museum building was designed by I. M. Pei. Funds for the building were donated by Cornell alumnus Herbert F. Johnson, late president and chairman of S C Johnson. The building opened in 1973.
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The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, located on the campus of Cornell University, is open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. The Museum is accessible for mobility-impaired visitors, and a wheelchair is available in the lobby. Metered parking is available in the lot next to the Museum. For more information, please call 607 255-6464. Visit the Museum’s website at www.museum.cornell.edu. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is a proud member of Ithaca’s Discovery Trail: www.DiscoveryTrail.com.
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