Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum

The Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum is a museum proposed for North Adams, Massachusetts that plans to display model trains running through a landscape of notable modern architecture. Architect Frank Gehry has contracted to design the new museum, which will be located a few blocks away from the MASS MoCA modern art museum. Thomas Krens, former director of the Guggenheim Museum who oversaw the creation of the Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, and a Mass MoCA founder, is heading the creation of the new museum.[1][2]

The plan calls for an 83,000-square-foot museum to be built at an estimated cost to $65 million, featuring model trains running continuously past scale-models of buildings by notable architects including Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frank Gehry.[3] It will be built on publicly-owned land overlooking a disused rail freight yard; the proposed Museum holds an option to purchase the land.[1] About half of the financing is projected to come from state and local government funds allocated to support the growth of tourism, and half from private donations of which $2.5 million had been raised by August 2017.[1]

The projected opening date is 2020.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Shanks, Adam (29 August 2017). "Famed architect Frank Gehry to design Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum". Berkshire Eagle. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  2. 1 2 Chow, Andrew (3 September 2017). "Frank Gehry to Design Museum for Architectural Gems (and Model Trains)". New York Times. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Gay, Malcolm (1 September 2017). "Architect Frank Gehry to design proposed museum". Boston Globe. Retrieved 10 September 2017.

Coordinates: 42°41′51″N 73°06′51″W / 42.6974°N 73.1142°W / 42.6974; -73.1142

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