Situated with dramatic view looking across the Hillsborough River, San Francisco based architect Stanley Saitowitz recently completed 60,000 sq The New Tampa Museum of Art building. The big idea behind Saitowitz’s design was to make the museum itself a frame for art. Wrapped with 3,000 panels of perforated aluminum embedded with programmable LED lights, the building’s façade shimmers in the light of the day and at night it becomes a canvas for a public art installation by digital light artist Leo Villareal (NY). Inside, a floating staircase leads to the second floor galleries. These galleries provide the museum with dramatically expanded exhibition space, allowing it to display more of its permanent collection and to attract larger, more prominent exhibitions.

The Museum collection includes twentieth-century and contemporary art and a renowned collection of Greek and Roman antiquities. A changing special exhibitions program provides a lively mix of classical and contemporary shows. Complementing these exhibitions are a wide range of classes, lectures, seminars, walking tours, and children’s activities.

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