Moca museum oakland free#

Moca museum oakland free#

A spacious ground-floor area is accessible to the public free of charge during open hours MOCA director Jill Snyder hopes it will serve as an “urban living room.” 24, 2013) is currently on the top floor, while a large sculpture by David Altmejd, The Orbit (2012), is in the project gallery (through Dec. MOCA’s inaugural exhibition, “Inside Out and from the Ground Up” (through Feb. The 34,000-square-foot new building gives the non-collecting institution about 8,000 square feet for temporary exhibitions, with three quarters of that area on the top floor and one quarter in a second-floor project space.

building and the first completed museum for Moussavi, who is also currently at work on the Quran Museum in Tehran, slated for completion in 2013. The building’s exterior is clad with 1,354 black steel panels that create shimmering reflections. Six sides, some triangular, some trapezoidal, rise 65 feet from a hexagonal base to form a square roof. attended opening festivities over the weekend.ĭesigned by Iranian-born, London-based Farshid Moussavi, the striking new facility resembles a gigantic chunk of a shiny mineral, resting on an airy plaza.

The museum opened to the public Monday A.i.A. Having operated in rented quarters since it opened as the commercial New Gallery in 1968, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland has constructed an impressive new building in the city’s University Circle neighborhood, home to the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Orchestra and other cultural institutions.