Crystal Bridges Museum's expansion will open in June 2026

"The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has announced that it will open its long-awaited expansion on 6 June 2026. Filling some of the newly created space-increasing the museum's size by 50%-will be hundreds of works recently given to the museum. A majority of this new art, more than 200 pieces by over 100 artists, comes from the Dallas-based collectors Candace and Michael Humphreys, a retired venture capitalist. It is the largest gift in the museum's history."

""We could not be more delighted to see how the museum, its collection and the surrounding landscape have grown together to create what has been described as a happy building," Moshe Safdie, the founding partner of Safdie Architects, said in a statement. "With the addition of diverse galleries, workshops and gardens, the expansion exponentially expands the museum's mission of serving as a centrepiece of communal and cultural life.""

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will open a major expansion on 6 June 2026 that increases the museum's size by 50% and adds 114,000 square feet. The expansion includes diverse galleries, workshops and gardens and was designed by Safdie Architects. The project was announced in 2021 and began in 2022; construction proceeded while the museum remained open and galleries were reinstalled. The expansion will house a gift of more than 200 works by over 100 artists from collectors Candace and Michael Humphreys, spanning painting, photography, textiles, ceramics, glass and prints, and will add outdoor sculptures along trails and gardens.

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