“Palmer Museum of Art offers first look at new building with 3D video tour”

[BobPSU92]

See the link below for the article and video. From the article:

”UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State celebrates its 50th anniversary, the Palmer looks ahead to a bright future in a new building at the Arboretum. A newly released fly-through animation offers an immersive 3D view of the $85 million facility. The Palmer created the two-and-a-half-minute video in collaboration with Allied Works and the Brooklyn Digital Foundry. The 71,254-square-foot facility will open in spring 2024.

The Palmer’s new building, designed by Allied Works, will double the museum’s exhibition space to 20 galleries; improve accessibility; bring inviting, natural light into the museum; and include the Palmer’s first educational and event spaces, a museum store and café, sculpture path, and outdoor terraces.”

https://www.psu.edu/news/palmer-museum-art/story/palmer-museum-art-offers-first-look-new-building-3d-video-tour/

I’m glad that they never miss an opportunity to cite the cost of the new museum.

 

[cmentheadcra k]

The funny thing is the art world will still view PSU as a third tier operation. Heck, the Reading Children’s Museum is held in much higher regard than PSU. (This is no slight on RCM, which is awesome and I love.)

 

[WVilleLion]

$85M? Ha, I bet it is about $105M before it is all said and done.

 

[PSU12046]

$85M? Ha, I bet it is about $105M before it is all said and done.

And just like the video, it will only be virtual visitors to the PSU Louvre

 

[NewEra 2014]

$85M? Ha, I bet it is about $105M before it is all said and done.

We could have paid NIL payments to the football team for 10 years instead of wasting it on art.

 

[Midnighter]

It’s a very nice looking facility and really, really big.

 

[BobPSU92]

$85M? Ha, I bet it is about $105M before it is all said and done.

One would hope so.

 

[BobPSU92]

We could have paid NIL payments to the football team for 10 years instead of wasting it on art.

But football will never bring thousands of visitors per year to Penn State.

 

[Bison13]

It’s a very nice looking facility and really, really big.

That’s what she said

 

[Midnighter]

That’s what she said

 

[PSU12046]

That’s what she said

 

[leinbacker]

I’m looking forward to the onion dip bowl exhibit

 

[BobPSU92]

Alumnus and New York City art dealer makes transformative gift to Palmer Museum

”UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Shortly after Will Ameringer retired in 2020, he began to reflect on a 40-year career in the art world, and as a desire to give back emerged, his thoughts went back to where it all started: Penn State.

When the then Museum of Art at Penn State — now the Palmer Museum of Art — opened its doors 50 years ago, Ameringer was finishing high school and was living what he called a “State College kid’s life.” From a home built by his parents, the late Charles Ameringer, a history professor at the University, and his wife, Jean, Will often took the walk to campus, which gave him a sense of the importance of the new museum. He graduated from Penn State in 1977 with a bachelor of arts degree in art history.

As Penn State and the museum community prepare to say goodbye to the original location and celebrate completion of the new, more than 70,000-square-foot Palmer Museum of Art, Ameringer and his husband, Kevin Byrne, have made a significant estate commitment to the University that will support the new museum as a cultural destination and solidify Ameringer’s family ties to the place he remembers fondly.

Ameringer and Byrne have committed $4 million to establish the Kevin and Will Ameringer-Byrne Museum Excellence Endowment, which will help the museum serve as a vital and accessible cultural resource for University students, faculty, staff, scholars and visitors to the central Pennsylvania region.”

https://www.psu.edu/news/palmer-museum-art/story/alumnus-and-new-york-city-art-dealer-makes-transformative-gift-palmer/

 

[bbrown]

See the link below for the article and video. From the article:

”UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State celebrates its 50th anniversary, the Palmer looks ahead to a bright future in a new building at the Arboretum. A newly released fly-through animation offers an immersive 3D view of the $85 million facility. The Palmer created the two-and-a-half-minute video in collaboration with Allied Works and the Brooklyn Digital Foundry. The 71,254-square-foot facility will open in spring 2024.

The Palmer’s new building, designed by Allied Works, will double the museum’s exhibition space to 20 galleries; improve accessibility; bring inviting, natural light into the museum; and include the Palmer’s first educational and event spaces, a museum store and café, sculpture path, and outdoor terraces.”

https://www.psu.edu/news/palmer-museum-art/story/palmer-museum-art-offers-first-look-new-building-3d-video-tour/

I’m glad that they never miss an opportunity to cite the cost of the new museum.

Its nice, not sure how many people it will draw (no pun intended). I'm guessing it will get a good bit of foot traffic about 7-10 weekends a year.
I always liked the Palmer Musuem, although I never liked the building, I always thought they shoe horned it into the existing space next to The Visual Arts Building and Zoeller Gallery.
So then what happens to that building? Maybe they can move the Lion Paws over with the shrine?

 

[PSU12046]

Mr. Barron is looking forward to the onion dip bowel exhibit

FIFY

 

[lions1995]

$85 mil could have given every student at PSU a $10K reduction in tuition for a school year. That would have been a better use of the money.

 

[CF Lion]

It's a great looking building. I know a lot here think this is a waste of $, but from what I've seen at other college campuses the existing museum is a joke.

Not sure what the master plan is for that area, but I could one day see a "new" Eisenhower Auditorium in the same vicinity as part of an arts campus. Eisenhower now seems out of place, wedged in between the newer Chem/BioMed/Life Sciences buildings.

 

[PSU12046]

It's a great looking building. I know a lot here think this is a waste of $, but from what I've seen at other college campuses the existing museum is a joke.

Not sure what the master plan is for that area, but I could one day see a "new" Eisenhower Auditorium in the same vicinity as part of an arts campus. Eisenhower now seems out of place, wedged in between the newer Chem/BioMed/Life Sciences buildings.

You're absolutely correct on all fronts here and I agree with you on the arts (my BA is in art and my MBA is in marketing). But do you think PSU should be spending $$$ on this type of stuff with inflation and supply chain issues. I'm no means trying to be argumentative, just trying to gauge your interest, CF

 

[BobPSU92]

$85 mil could have given every student at PSU a $10K reduction in tuition for a school year. That would have been a better use of the money.

What about the next year, and the year after that, and …?

 

[CF Lion]

You're absolutely correct on all fronts here and I agree with you on the arts (my BA is in art and my MBA is in marketing). But do you think PSU should be spending $$$ on this type of stuff with inflation and supply chain issues. I'm no means trying to be argumentative, just trying to gauge your interest, CF

It's a good question to ask. I think the university should have an art museum of the same caliber as it's pier institutions. Whether they should delay the project or not is difficult to answer without knowing the structure of the construction contracts in place (or not in place).

 

[PSU12046]

It's a good question to ask. I think the university should have an art museum of the same caliber as it's pier institutions. Whether they should delay the project or not is difficult to answer without knowing the structure of the construction contracts in place (or not in place).

Thanks for being civil in this conversation, CF. I'm hoping that @BarryFenchek can help us with this?

 

[bbrown]

It's a good question to ask. I think the university should have an art museum of the same caliber as it's pier institutions. Whether they should delay the project or not is difficult to answer without knowing the structure of the construction contracts in place (or not in place).

+1

 

[WVilleLion]

It's a good question to ask. I think the university should have an art museum of the same caliber as it's pier institutions. Whether they should delay the project or not is difficult to answer without knowing the structure of the construction contracts in place (or not in place).

There is no delaying the project. Civil and construction process are well underway.

 

[TheBigUglies]

Ya know I have been thinking(Yes that is what you smell burning), we are very critical of things going on at PSU with things like spending money on this new museum. I don't remember everyone(incl me) being so critical before the shiit hit the fan in 2011. Is it because the demonstrated lack of leadership at PSU the reason we have become so critical on things we see as a waste? Did these types of things get questioned/critical comments under Spaniar? Inquiring minds want to know? Plus I hate my job and people are pissing me off today.

 

[91Joe95]

Ya know I have been thinking(Yes that is what you smell burning), we are very critical of things going on at PSU with things like spending money on this new museum. I don't remember everyone(incl me) being so critical before the shiit hit the fan in 2011. Is it because the demonstrated lack of leadership at PSU the reason we have become so critical on things we see as a waste? Did these types of things get questioned/critical comments under Spaniar? Inquiring minds want to know? Plus I hate my job and people are pissing me off today.

Spanier got questioned plenty over his spending priorities and rapidly increasing tuition. What's going on now is another level.

 

[Keyser Soze 16802]

Boondoggle

It will never break even on an annual basis. It will lose money every year

And forget about it earning back the construction cost any time over the next 1000 years

 

[UncleRoyBiggins]

For $85 million, I hope their crappers make the PSU best crapper list.

 

[manatree]

Boondoggle

It will never break even on an annual basis. It will lose money every year

And forget about it earning back the construction cost any time over the next 1000 years

By that standard, every academic building on campus is a boondoggle.

 

[Keyser Soze 16802]

By that standard, every academic building on campus is a boondoggle.

 

[step.eng69]

I don't see the Green Build nor the sustainability that the environmentalists wish to see in modern building construction.

 

[BobPSU92]

I don't see the Green Build nor the sustainability that the environmentalists wish to see in modern building construction.

Penn State laughs at sustainability.

 

[Midnighter]

Penn State laughs at sustainability.

Sustainability is for peasants.

 

[91Joe95]

By that standard, every academic building on campus is a boondoggle.

Actually it's not. Academic buildings have paying customers, i.e., students use the buildings. Museums don't hold classes, and if they do they are small and infrequent. That puts them in the category of non-value added overhead.

 

[91Joe95]

I don't see the Green Build nor the sustainability that the environmentalists wish to see in modern building construction.

And that ensures the basis for its future renovation project. Boondoggle sustainability.

 

[step.eng69]

My Jimmy Durante contribution for the fruit and vegetable area of the Art Museum...


Eggplant should be firm before and soft after cooking

 

[manatree]

Actually it's not. Academic buildings have paying customers, i.e., students use the buildings. Museums don't hold classes, and if they do they are small and infrequent. That puts them in the category of non-value added overhead.

If it's not an academic building that is used for the education of students, what is it? Last time I checked, Penn State still had a College of Arts & Architecture.

 

[manatree]

I don't see the Green Build nor the sustainability that the environmentalists wish to see in modern building construction.

Penn State laughs at sustainability.

And that ensures the basis for its future renovation project. Boondoggle sustainability.

Every new construction at Penn State is designed to acheive some level of LEED certification. Many renovations are as well, depending on the scope of the reno.

I am in no way saying the new museum, or any of the many construction projects, is a wise use of money. However, if you are going to criticise, at least get your facts straight.

 

[91Joe95]

If it's not an academic building that is used for the education of students, what is it? Last time I checked, Penn State still had a College of Arts & Architecture.

A museum?

 

[manatree]

A museum?

....and apparently an art museum has no academic value for students in the College of Arts & Architecture. Check.

 

[91Joe95]

....and apparently an art museum has no academic value for students in the College of Arts & Architecture. Check.

It's interesting you are pushing a mission for it that is explicitly excluded from the video. It does not have classrooms.