• The Museum galleries, the Museum Restaurant, and the Museum Store will remain open during regular operating hours throughout the construction process. The Museum Park is open from dawn to dusk, seven days a week.
  
  
• There will always be available space for parking.  For your convenience, follow the signs to open lots as parking locations will change several times throughout the course of construction. These signs direct visitors to parking, handicap drop-off, walkways, etc.
  
  
• The first row of parking and half of the second row in the main visitor parking lot are closed. The handicap parking spaces have been relocated. For your convenience a covered seating area for visitor drop-offs is available.
  

GALLERY CLOSURES
The Museum will remain open during regular operating hours, however due to the expansion and renovation project certain galleries may be closed.

• The American Gallery is closed throughout the expansion project. Highlights of the American Collection, a special exhibition showcasing 19 of the Museum’s finest paintings from the collection, is currently on view on the Entrance-Level.
  
  
• The Egyptian collection is partially off-view.
  
  
• The Judaic, African, and Ancient Americas Galleries are closed for conservation. They will open in the new gallery building in April 2010.

ABOUT THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART EXPANSION INITIATIVE

On the eve of its 60th anniversary, The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA)—the first major American art museum collection to be formed by state legislation and appropriation—begins an ambitious expansion initiative, including construction of a new 127,000 square foot building to house the institution’s outstanding permanent collection of more than 5,000 objects spanning antiquity to the present day.  This expansion initiative will also transform the NCMA’s existing 1983 Edward Durrell Stone building into a center for temporary exhibitions, collections management, education, and administration, and create lyrical gardens and outdoor galleries in a landscape for art and artist-conceived environmental projects.  The institution’s completed 164-acre campuswill be the nation’s largest art museum park, with walking paths, bike trails, ecological projects conceived with artists, and site-specific

View of planned Entrance Hall with Classical sculpture.

commissioned works in a rolling green landscape fringed by pine woods.

In December 2006 the Museum officially broke ground for the project, and the new building is scheduled to be complete in the fall of 2009 and open to the public in April 2010. The new NCMA building has been designed by noted architect Thomas Phifer of Thomas Phifer and Partners, New York.  Local executive architect for the project is Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee Architects of Raleigh, N.C.  The landscape architect for the expansion project is Peter Walker of Peter Walker and Partners, Berkeley, Ca., which is working in collaboration with the local firm of Lappas + Havener, Durham, N.C.