Mississippi Museum of Art update!

Thought I'd sign in with a quick update on the Mississippi Museum of Art. If you hadn't heard, they are renovating the Mississippi Arts Pavillion facility as their new space. In less than a year, museum will open at its new home. Once completed, the facility’s architectural makeover is hoped to reflect the Museum’s mission to become a “museum without walls”—an inviting public space that will offer relevant and meaningful cultural experiences to both the Jackson community and the state of Mississippi.

The Museum’s capital campaign is well underway, with major contributions already secured from Trustmark, Bancorp South, BankPlus, BlueCross BlueShield of Mississippi, The Gertrude C. Ford Foundation, the Phil Hardin Foundation, the State of Mississippi and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Construction of the new Museum has already begun! In recent weeks, interior demolition on the facility has been completed. Work now begins on the northwest corner of the building—what will be the Museum’s main entrance, with an elevated ceiling, front-facing glass walls, and a canopy that extends onto the green space of the Museum’s gardens. Once this exterior renovation is complete, construction will move back inside to create a café, galleries, interactive spaces, classrooms, and back-of-house operations.

You can check out more of what the museum has planned and look at the architectual renderings of the new space at their MMA Is Moving website.