Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary art gallery in North Adams, United States.
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art is an art gallery in North Adams, Massachusetts, that spreads across an extensive former industrial complex with more than two hundred forty thousand square feet of exhibition space. The nineteen galleries sit inside interconnected brick buildings with large windows, high ceilings, and wide corridors that reveal the original factory structure.
The buildings began in eighteen seventy as Arnold Print Works, a textile factory that produced fabrics for the Union Army during the Civil War. After nineteen eighty-five, when Sprague Electric Company ceased operations, the site was gradually transformed into an art museum and opened to visitors in the nineties.
The performing arts venue includes a theater with two hundred thirty seats and stages that host experimental music, dance, and multimedia performances. Throughout the complex, rotating exhibitions by contemporary artists display their work in installations that often use the high ceilings and open architecture of the former factory halls.
The complex is largely accessible, with elevators and ramps in most buildings, and the galleries can be visited in any order. Touring can take several hours, and on-site dining options help break up the visit.
One of the expansions from two thousand seventeen added around one hundred twenty thousand square feet to the museum, making it among the largest contemporary art spaces in North America. This additional area houses large-scale installations that would be difficult to accommodate elsewhere, including works that fill entire rooms from floor to ceiling.
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