page_title: Norton Museum of Art
section_title: Building
hierarchical_section_title: Norton Museum of Art / Building
caption_attribution_description: English: The Pamela and Robert B. Goergen Garden featuring a great lawn, outdoor sculpture collection, several smaller gardens, and opportunities for seating and reflection creating, in Lord Foster’s words, “a museum in a garden”
context_page_description: The Norton Museum of Art is an art museum located in West Palm Beach, Florida. Its collection includes over 7,000 works, with a concentration in European, American, and Chinese art as well as in contemporary art and photography. In 2003, it overtook the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, in Sarasota, and became the largest museum in Florida.
context_section_description: In 2001, the Norton Museum of Art underwent a significant expansion when the 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m²) Gail and Melvin Nessel Wing was built and increased the size of the museum to 122,500 square feet (11,380 m²). Constructed over two years, it was opened to the public in 2003. The expansion created more space to display art in both the new and existing areas, increasing the Norton's gallery space by 75 percent, allowing more opportunities for the museum's permanent collection. The wing includes 14 new galleries, an enclosed courtyard to accommodate a variety of educational and social events, a glass ceiling installation commissioned from Dale Chihuly, a cantilevered spiral staircase, and three-story atrium designed to evoke the museum's art. The J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Pavilion is a wedge-shaped meeting and reception space off to one side. The new wing was designed by Chad Floyd of the Connecticut-based Centerbrook Architects & Planners.
  In 2013, the museum unveiled a $60 million master plan designed by the British architect Norman Foster that would nearly double its gallery space and add an education center, auditorium and restaurant. The new West Wing added a 43 ft-high Great Hall. A parking lot next to the museum was converted into a 9,000 square feet (840 m²) sculpture garden. A new entrance and forecourt along the main thoroughfare, South Dixie Highway, re-established the axial layout of the Norton’s original 1941 Art Deco building. As planned, the museum broke ground in 2016.
  The Museum closed in July, 2018, for renovations. On February 9, 2019, it re-opened, adding 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²) of gallery space, new classrooms, a restaurant, and a 210-seat auditorium, in addition to the sculpture garden.
caption: The Pamela and Robert B. Goergen Garden walkway
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