economic crisis of autumn 2008, the museum has put many dollars in a difficult position. Temporarily halt the rapid construction of the museum, which lasted in America from the late 1980's. But it seems that a break came to an end: in 2011, this museum is expected to boom, will begin construction of at least 10 major new museums. And many of them will be built for private collections. Here are some of the most ambitious projects.

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1. Museum Eli Brody (Broad Art Foundation)

Los Angeles, California

100 - million project of a new private museum collector Eli Brody and his wife, Edith, was promulgated on Jan. 6, 2011. This is the second museum, which will build a billionaire: the first museum of modern art spouses Broad opened in 2008 as a division of the Art Museum of Los Angeles County (LACMA). At the collector gave him $ 60 million. The new museum will be still more, because it must accommodate a collection of 2000 works of contemporary art.

From artfully curved base to grow the building of irregular shape with beveled walls and many windows. Inside, the ceiling and walls of the exhibition space of almost four thousand square meters will be covered with natural light, the amount of which will be closely monitored. Building directs architectural firm Diller Scofidio & Renfro.

Eli Broad (Eli Broad) regularly helps LACMA and ILAC (Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art), as well as constantly appears in the "Top-10 the main collectors of the world ».

Project Art Museum Miami, Florida Source: artsjournal.com

Interior Art Museum, Miami, Florida Source: bloomberg.com

2. Art Museum of Miami (Miami Art Museum)

Miami, Florida

construction of the museum cost 130 million dollars under the leadership of Herzog & de Meuron began in December last year. The building will consist of huge cubes of different sizes, as if hovering in the air. According to the project with the overhanging roof of the building will fall vines, through which you can admire the park near the museum and Biscayne Bay.

3. Museum of Contemporary Art San Francisco (SF MOMA)

San Francisco, CA

Norwegian-American company Snohetta in June 2011 will present a draft of a new wing of the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. The new building cost $ 480 million will house a collection of Doris and Donald Fisher (Doris and Donald Fisher) - founder of retail chain Gap. Donald Fisher died in 2009, bequeathing his collection of contemporary art works of 1100 SF MOMA.

The new building will rise next to the main museum building in 1995, a design architect, Mario Botta (Mario Botta).

Project Museum of American Art Crystal Bridges Source: crystalbridgesmuseum.org

4. Museum of American Art Crystal Bridges (Museum of American Art Crystal Bridges)

Bentonville, Arkansas

Museum of American Art Crystal Bridges (Bentonville, Arkansas) area of ​​18,500 square meters is built for the collection of Alice Walton (Alice Walton) - the successor to the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart. Stages of the museum under the copper roof will be placed around the two ponds dug near a natural spring. The Museum was designed by architect Moshe Safdi (Moshe Safdie) are planning to open in November 2011.

5. Kimbell Museum of Art (Kimbell Art Museum)

Fort Worth, Texas

architect Renzo Piano (Renzo Piano) designing a new wing of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, which is located in front of Louis Kahn (Louis Kahn), 1972. Exhibit Space Museum will be doubled and will appear in front of the garden. A project worth $ 125 million plan to finish in 2013.

6. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)

Boston, MA

architectural solution The new building Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, too, deals with Renzo Piano. The new building has an area of ​​5,5 thousand square meters and cost $ 114 million will house rooms for temporary exhibitions, a concert hall and ancillary facilities. Thus, to free up more exhibition space in the old museum building. Opening planned in 2012.

7. Museum Foundation Barnes (Barnes Foundation)

Philadelphia, PA

New York architects Tod Williams (Tod Williams) and Billy Price (Billie Tsien) is currently constructing a new building of the Museum Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. At the heart of the museum's collection is a collection of Impressionist and Modern works of Albert Barnes (Albert Barnes, 1872-1951). The new building will occupy not less than 8,500 square feet and cost $ 150 million.

8. Museum Clifford Steele (Clyfford Still Museum)

Denver, Colorado

In Denver constructed a concrete museum building, where fits virtually all legacy abstract artist Clifford Steele (Clyfford Still). Architects from the firm Allied Works into account the wishes of the author about how to exhibit his work. Building area of ​​2.6 thousand square meters will cost $ 29 million and be completed by the end of 2011.

9. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland)

Cleveland, Ohio

London architect Farshid Moussavi (Farshid Moussavi) is not in a hurry to disclose their ideas to be embodied in the museum building area of ​​3000 square meters. We only know that his grace amazing staircase - in itself a work of art. Construction completion scheduled for the second half of 2012.

Draft Whitney Museum Source: dexigner.com

10. Whitney Museum (Whitney Museum)

New York, New York

long-awaited construction new building for the Whitney Museum in Manhattan to begin in May this year. The project is ubiquitous Renzo Piano provides more than 1,5 thousand square meters of exhibition space, four times what the Whitney Museum possesses today. With the wide terraces, adorned with sculptures, will offer views of the High Line Park and the Hudson River. Construction of the $ 450 million in completed only in 2015.

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: bloomberg.com , artinvestment.ru

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The number of private museums is growing

New Museum of Eli Brody