Inside the hidden gem of the Hammer Museum’s $90-million renovation
As part of the Hammer’s two-decade, $90-million reinvention — designed by Michael Maltzan Architecture and the final phase of which debuts this week — the Grunwald Center now features a new, state-of-the-art study room and an adjacent gallery for works on paper. The gallery opened in February 2022 and the study room, which includes a high-density storage facility so that artworks can be kept practically within arm’s reach, opened in fall 2022. One promotes the other: the study room is visible from the gallery, and vice versa, through an adjoining glass door.
It’s an incredible resource — if you know it’s there.
“That’s the challenge — many people just don’t know it exists,” says Hammer Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs Cynthia Burlingham, who’s also the Grunwald Center’s longtime director.
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