In 1999, the Museum of Modern art undertook a major $858 million expansion of its historic Manhattan facilities. The museum needed to create a temporary space to house the museum’s collection that would maintain its identity and membership loyalty while its permanent location closed for renovation and expansion. MoMA QNS would serve as a temporary exhibition space in a visually inventive way, but be able to quickly convert back to its original program as a site for museum support, preservation, and collections storage.
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