Museums - A Photo Thread

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Museum: The Witte Museum's Susan Naylor Center
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Architect: Lake/Flato
Completed: 2017

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: The Witte Museum's Mays Family Center
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Architect: Lake/Flato
Completed: 2016

























All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: The Witte Museum's Texas Heritage Center
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Architect: Phelps & Dewees and Ayres & Ayres (Pioneer Hall), Ford, Powell, & Carson (renovation and addition)
Completed: 1937 (Pioneer Hall), 2012 (renovation and addition)

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: The Witte Museum's H-E-B Body Adventure
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Architect: Lake/Flato
Completed: 1997

























All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: MOCA Grand Avenue
Location: Los Angeles, California
Architect: Arata Isozaki
Completed: 1986

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: The Broad
Location: Los Angeles, California
Architect: Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler
Completed: 2015

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2023.

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Museum: Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg
Location: Salzburg, Austria
Architect: Friedrich Hoff Zwink
Completed: 2004

Salzburg's modern art museum has two location, the original in the Rupertinum in the old town and this newer building located on Mönchsberg mountain above the city. It is reached by an elevator located inside the mountain and has sweeping views, even on a cloudy day.

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Restaurant
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Gift Shop
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View over the old town and towards the Hohensalzburg fortress
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[geomorph]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Salzburg's modern art museum has two location, the original in the Rupertinum in the old town and this newer building located on Mönchsberg mountain above the city. It is reached by an elevator located inside the mountain and has sweeping views, even on a cloudy day.

That looks like a nice museum, and it certainly takes advantage of its view! I visited the city in 1995 and I have a vague recollection of being told that a museum would eventually be built in that location.

[vetteking]

Museum: Two Mississippi Museums
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Architect: A Joint Venture of Eley Guild Hardy, Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons Ltd, and Dale Partners
Completed: 2017











https://www.dalepartners.com/two-mississippi-museums

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Originally Posted by vetteking

Museum: Two Mississippi Museums
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Architect: A Joint Venture of Eley Guild Hardy, Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons Ltd, and Dale Partners
Completed: 2017

I like the contrast of the rather austere lobby and hallway with the overload of graphics in the exhibit spaces!

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Museum: Orange County Museum of Art
Location: Costa Mesa, California
Architect: Morphosis
Completed: 2022

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2022.

[vetteking]

Originally Posted by geomorph

I like the contrast of the rather austere lobby and hallway with the overload of graphics in the exhibit spaces!

I agree its beautiful, hopefully you will pay it a visit one day. There's so much history in there to learn.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by geomorph

Museum: Orange County Museum of Art
Location: Costa Mesa, California
Architect: Morphosis
Completed: 2022



All photos taken by geomorph in 2022.

I'm definitely getting Frank Gehry vibes from this design!

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Museum: Community Planetarium at Orange Coast College
Location: Costa Mesa, California
Architect: HPI Architecture
Completed: 2019

































All photos taken by geomorph in 2022.

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Museum: International Spy Museum (has moved from this location)
Location: Washington, DC
Architect: "...five restored buildings with a core of new construction. One is Le Droit, the oldest office building in Washington; another is the Atlas Building...Several firms helped shape the museum: SmithGroup Architects; Adamstein & Demetriou, the architects for the restaurant and cafe; and Gallagher & Associates" -New York Times, 2002
Completed: 2002-2019



Photo taken by geomorph in 2008.

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Museum: The Women's Museum (closed)
Location: Dallas, Texas
Architect: ?
Completed: 1910 (as Municipal Coliseum), 1935 (renovated), 2000-2011 (as museum)





All photos taken by geomorph in 2013.

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Museum: Museum of Nature and Science - Dallas Museum of Natural History building (now a satellite of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science located near downtown Dallas)
Location: Dallas, Texas
Architect: ?
Completed: 1936





All photos taken by geomorph in 2013.

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Museum: Museum of Nature and Science - Science Place 1 building (closed)
Location: Dallas, Texas
Architect: ?
Completed: 1936







All photos taken by geomorph in 2013.

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Museum: The Leonardo
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Architect: ?
Completed: 1964 (as Salt Lake City Public Library), 2011 (as museum)



Photo taken by geomorph in 2015.

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Museum: Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Architect: Burton Kenneth Johnstone Associates
Completed: 1965







All photos taken by geomorph in 2012.