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Tacoma Art Museum The artistic design behind Haub Family Galleries
Article and Photo By Todd Matthews, Editor / Image Below Courtesy Tacoma Art Museum When the Tacoma Art Museum celebrates the completion its $15.5 million, 16,000-square-foot museum expansion and grand opening of "This is a the Haub Family Galleries this huge commisweekend, much attention will be sion because on focused on the Western American so many levels paintings and sculptures that it is about the comprise the inaugural exhibiart more than tion. it is about the In total, Erivan and Helga architecture," Haub and their family donated said Olson Kunnearly 300 pieces of art dating dig Architects back to 1820 by artists such as Design Principle E. Martin Hennings, Georgia Tom Kundig. His O'Keeffe, Tom Lovell, and John firm designed Clymer (among others). The the Tacoma Art Haub Family Collection repreMuseum's $15.5 sents the single largest gift in the million expanmuseum's history. sion, which Perhaps equally as interesting includes the new is the new wing itself. Designed 16,000-squareby Olson Kundig Architects, the foot Haub Famlow-slung addition recalls the ily Galleries. box cars and Native American longhouses depicted in much of the artwork on display inside the galleries. Among the more unique building features are manually-operated, 16-feet-wide-by-17-feet-tall sliding sun screens. The hand-wheel allows museum staff to control the amount of light that enters the building, yet still allow passersby to glimpse inside the galleries.
"Certainly the building is a key part of the story," said Tacoma Art Museum Executive Director Stephanie A. Stebich during a preview tour this week. "It is architecture in the service of art. We really asked for a transparent building where you could see the city and its activity, and make the collection available for people walking down the street. The Haub Collection
should be quite familiar and a part of their lives." Another new feature: a new entry experience that includes a 30-foot-tall canopy, as well as entry spaces that blend the new wing with the existing museum. During the tour this week, CONTINUED Olson Kundig Architects DeON PAGE 2 sign Principle Tom Kundig