The PMA Gets It Right

Last Friday I hiked up the Parkway to see the Philadelphia Museum of Art's
brand-spankin'-new baby, the Perelman Building. The Museum has had this
building for years, and had been operating certain departments within it even
when I worked there-- but not like now!

Recently the building opened with all its shiny new toys installed, and it is a
wonderous masterpiece of gallery, lab, storage, and office design. I was lucky
enough to have my very good friend Vincent take me on a tour of all the nooks
and crannies, and I defy any museum in the world to show me a better site
for the work of running a museum. If Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye was a
machine for living in, then the Perelman Building is a machine for revving up
ART (and all its attendant transactions)! I can't think of a happier situation for a
library, archives, IT dept, conservation, development-- and galleries! I think
the people at Gluckman Mayner (the architects) totally rocked it.

Really... be still my heart...

PS Admission to the Perelman Building is free until December 31, so everyone
go and see it-- you have no excuse to wait!

Posted by jvoris at October 9, 2007 11:22 AM