The new museum is located in the heart of historic city of Princeton University and will go up on the current site of the museum. The design is conceived as a “campus within the campus,” containing, aside from the exhibition area, Marquand Library, one of the country’s oldest –, and the University’s Department of Art and Archaeology, forming an important research cen-ter for the humanities. The design of the new building allows the collections to be exhibited on a single level, shaping new ways of encountering the collections and new forms of rela-tionship among pieces from around the world.

The proposal features seven primary interlocked pavilions to adapt to the scale of the adja-cent historic buildings, offering visitors unique experiences of the works. The design inserts itself dynamically into campus life by maintaining key pedestrian pathways that flow into and through the Museum via two “art walks” that function as the new building’s circulatory spine. The design embraces new curatorial practices that challenge the traditional hierarchies based on geography and chronology, fostering new modes of storytelling based on ideas of cultural contact and exchange...[+]