Art museums are some of the largest buildings in the world. The world's most pre-eminent museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space.[1]
The following is a list of art museums ranked according to their gallery space where published by reliable sources. Only museums with more than 8,000 square meters (86,000sqft) of gallery space are included.
The following is a list of art museums projected to offer at least 8,000 square meters (86,000sqft) of gallery space in the future or increase their current gallery space, following construction, expansion, or renovation.
↑The 100,000 square meters mentioned on the official website are the total exhibition area of the institution, which includes sites outside of St. Petersburg. The figure given here is the one that previously appeared on the official website, corresponding only to the site of Saint-Petersburg. Mention of this number appears on some websites, or in the book "Tourism in Russia: A Management Handbook" (p.158).
↑65,000 square feet expansion adds 30% of gallery space
↑The Sainsbury Wing has 450,000 square feet of exhibition space (Victoria Newhouse, Towards a New Museum, 1998, Monacelli Press, p.182) and accounts for roughly a third of the museum
↑5,000 square meters original exhibition space, doubled by extension
↑The original 2011 facility comprises 93,000 square feet (8,600 square meters) of gallery space out of a total floor area of 200,000 square feet. The museum announced that its 2026 project will expand gallery space by 65% or about 60,000 square feet (5,600 square meters). Added to the existing gallery space, the expanded museum will offer 153,000 square feet of gallery and exhibition space, while the site's total building area will be over 300,000 square feet. These measurements exclude The Momentary, a contemporary art annex opened by Crystal Bridges in 2020, which offers 24,000 square feet of gallery space in a converted 63,000-square-foot former food processing plant in downtown Bentonville.
↑This figure incorporates 13,000 square meters for special exhibitions and 18,000 square metres for the permanent collection.
↑The new building's total footprint will be 173,000 square feet, which includes 63,000 square feet of permanent collection and temporary exhibition galleries.
↑The museum has announced that the new Oscar L. and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing will increase gallery space for the display of modern and contemporary art to reach 71,000 square feet. Since the current wing comprises 48,000 square feet of gallery space, it means that the new wing set to replace it will effectively add 23,000 square feet of new gallery space to the museum.
↑""Pyramid" Launch Project"(PDF). Louvre Museum (Press release). 18 September 2014. Archived from the original(PDF) on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
↑"2010/11 Biennial Report"(PDF). Carnegie Museum of Art. September 2012. Archived from the original(PDF) on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
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