Adaptive Re-use Gallery

This was a group project that I did with Megan and Alyx. Our subject was on adaptive re-use buildings that were turned into a museum or art gallery.

The one I chose was the Akron Art Museum. It used to be a public library before it became a museum. They had no financial support and borrowed only two rooms in the basement of the library. The workers were only volunteers and they strongly hoped for a greater plan. They bought the public library in 1950 and opened up an Art Institute but after it closed, they changed the name "institute" to "museum" because the of the great art collection that they had.