Rijksmuseum. Photo credit: John Lewis Marshall. Image courtesy of Rijksmuseum

The past six months or so have been a fine time for museum renovations. This spring, in Amsterdam, a restored, refurbished, and improved Rijksmuseum reopened after ten years of intense effort, countless delays, and vast expenditure. And late in 2012, in New Haven, the Yale University Art Gallery emerged in a new, expanded incarnation—an ensemble of three very different, now suavely linked buildings. Two neo-Gothic edifices, the 1866 Street Hall and the 1928 Old Yale Art Gallery building, have been joined to the sleek 1953 Louis Kahn building, itself beautifully brought back to Kahn’s original intentions in 2006. The good news is that both the...

 

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