building to begin this summer
In January, the Yale University Art Gallery will begin preparing for renovation work on the museum that will begin this summer.
The landmark Louis I. Kahn building will be restored and renewed to conform more scrupulously and aesthetically with the eminent architect's 1953 design. During the estimated two-year period of renovation, the adjoining Italian Gothic structure, designed in 1928 by Egerton Swartwout, will become the center of the museum's activities.
In preparation for this work, galleries will close and the collections moved into storage on the following schedule:
* The African gallery will close Jan 2;
* The Ancient gallery will close Feb. 3;
* The Early European gallery will close March 3; and
* The Modern and Contemporary floor will close March 31.
The special exhibitions "Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge" and "The Once and Future Art Gallery: Renewing Yale's Oldest Museum" will remain open on the first floor through May 18.
The recently refurbished American galleries -- which house one of the world's most renowned collections of American paintings, sculpture and decorative arts -- will remain open, and a selection of artworks from the gallery's other departments will be on view in the sculpture hall and adjoining gallery. The museum store will relocate from the entrance of the Kahn building to the entrance of the Swartwout building, at the corner of Chapel and High streets.
The Yale Art Gallery's main entrance at 1111 Chapel St. will remain open through June.
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