Baltimore, Maryland
In anticipation of its centennial celebration, the Baltimore Museum of Art embarked upon a three-year capital renovation program. The ambitious, multi-phased effort was designed to transform galleries, improve the visitor experience, and upgrade building systems. Mueller Associates has supported the museum for decades, engineering MEP improvements throughout the circa-1920s main building, originally designed by John Russell Pope, as well as the wings added in 1983 and 1994.
The latest $28 million modernization included extensive renovations to galleries in the Contemporary Art and American wings, the addition of a new black box gallery, a 5,500-square-foot learning and creativity center, new lighting, upgraded building systems, and installation of a state-of-the-art building automation system (BAS). Careful phasing of the project enabled the museum to remain open to visitors throughout construction.
Ziger/Snead Architects
2021: Marder Center for Matisse Studies
2021: Center for Prints, Drawings and Photographs; Quinn Evans
2016: Thailheimer Auditorium Renovation; Marshall Craft Associates
2016: Air Handling Units Replacement Fans
2015: Conservation Laboratory Window Heating; Marshall Craft Associates
2015: Building Automation System; Ziger/Snead Architects
2014: Phased Renovations; Ziger/Snead Architects
2014: Air Handling Unit Replacements
2010: West Wing/NW Wing Cone Building; Marshall Craft Associates
2009: Thalheimer Wing Third-Floor Study
2005: Chiller Replacement and Upgrade
2005: Master Plan; Ayers Saint Gross
1999: Alterations to Cone Wing Main Floor
1994: Northwest Expansion; BLT Architects
1993: Roof Replacement; Marshall Craft Associates
1988: Museum Shop; BLT Architects
1987: Halon System for Print Vault
1980: Woodward Mary Jacobs Wing; BLT Architects
1975: Environmental Control
Read an overview of the modernization in IAMFA’s Papyrus magazine
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