Possible New Home for Aspen Art Museum
Aspen Art Museum
The Aspen Art Museum may be expanding and moving to a new home. In July the Aspen Art Museum announced the selection of Shigeru Ban Architects to design a new 30,000 square foot Aspen Art Museum (the current space is 7,000 square feet) that may be built as part of the Zupancis-Galena redevelopment. The project would also include municipal buildings and a larger Aspen Public Library in what city planners would like to be a bustling community just steps from Main Street.
According to Aspen Sojourner magazine, if approved, Ban’s Aspen museum will be privately funded, with $30 million already committed to the project. The Tokyo-born architect has received much international acclaim, including being named an “Innovator of the Year” in 2001 by Time Magazine. If the museum redevelopment can get through the City of Aspen’s planning process, construction is expected to begin in 2010.
