The New Museum, Manhattan’s only Museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, revealed that its 60,000 sq ft building expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson will open in the fall of 2025.
As a hub for new art and ideas, the New Museum has experimented and evolved since its founding in 1977, expanding its footprint at key moments to serve artists and the public better.
Its OMA-designed expansion will complement the New Museum’s existing SANAA-designed flagship building on the Bowery at Prince Street while doubling its gallery space. In addition to adding three elevators, a stairway in the atrium, and an entrance plaza, the Museum also created new spaces for artist residencies and public programs, as well as building a purpose-built home for its cultural incubator, NEW INC, as well as many other new and expanded features, marking a transformational time for both the Museum and the city.
Talking about the opening, Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis, Director of the New Museum, stated: “The New Museum has always been a future-facing museum—not a place for preserving and recording history, but a place where history is made” further adding “We are thrilled to be working with Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas on OMA’s first public building in New York City, ushering in a new era of possibilities for the New Museum as a vital civic resource for New Yorkers and the global arts community.”
