New Art Museum in the Cards for Las Vegas

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Las Vegas no more yearner wants to follow the largest U.S. city without a stand-alone art museum. So the city is inching frontward with plans to opened the Las Vegas Museum of Art. The museum will live located in a new building at Symphony Park, a five-acre arts hub inwards downtown Las Vegas that also houses the Kate Smith Center for the Performing Arts.

Construction on the $150M building — featuring 60K to 90K second power feet over ternion floors — isn’t expected to commence until 2026, so its earliest projected curtain raising is 2028.

The projection is beingness financed in the first place past Elaine Wynn –board chair and CEO of Wynn Resorts — and the L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA). Wynn, a trustee for the Las Vegas Museum of Art, also sits on the plank of LACMA, which has promised to loan Wynn pieces to video display from its extensive and expensive collection.

The new museum has also received $5M in seed funding from the Battle Born State body politic legislature.

Casino.org’s own Vital Vegas blogger George C. Scott Roeben broke some details of this story in November, weeks before the Las Vegas City Council even out voted to okay a 1.5-acre plot for the museum.

The most recent land site of the number one artistry museum inwards Las Vegas, which shared this building with a program library arm before existence forced to tight inwards 2009. (Image: laurenstan.com)

Lost Art

Las Vegas had its have art museum before. Kind of.

And no, we’re not referring to the art gallery at Wynn Las Vegas or the ones that sell their artistic production on the Strip and downtown.

There was erstwhile an actual come out called the Las Vegas Art Museum. It opened inward 1974 out of the ashes of the Las Vegas Art League, inwards a cattle ranch put up at Lorenzi Park that was owned by the metropolis of Las Vegas.

In the 1990s, the metropolis converted the museum into a senior nerve center and moved its compendium into a unexampled edifice it would percentage with one of its libraries until 2009. That’s when the Las Vegas Art Museum finally closed, citing a recession-prompted want of donations.

In 2012, the Las Vegas Art Museum’s collecting — consisting of 200 pieces of mostly modern-day fine art — was moved to the new renovated Barrick Museum at UNLV. Its former space at present functions as an artistic production picture gallery for the Sahara Desert Dame Rebecca West leg of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library.

In 2017, the Sagebrush State Museum of Art inwards Reno announced plans to open up a Las Vegas branch, but that $250M project was canceled inward 2020 due to deficiency of funding.

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