January 24, 2010
Museum moves: N-YHS, Hamilton Grange, Korea Center
A roundup of news about some of the museums and galleries making moves, expansion plans or other changes:.
 Restoration work continues at the Hamilton Grange National Memorial, which is expected to reopen to the public in the fall, according to the National Park Service.
The Grange, Alexander Hamilton’s Manhattan home, in 2008 was meticulously jacked up on beams and moved down the hill from its much-obstructed Hamilton Heights location. Now sitting behind fences in St. Nicholas Park, reconstruction efforts have benefitted from a $2.4-million infusion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.
The New-York Historical Society hopes to open a museum within a museum, focusing on children, according to a story in Saturday’s New-York Times. The DiMenna Children’s History Museum would open in November 2011.
Plans are advancing to build an eight-story Korea Center on East 32nd Street with exhibit space, gardens, artist studios, a library, a cafe and theater, Inhabitat reports. (Via Curbed.)
The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced it has tapped Bill Moggridge to become its new director. Moggridge, known as the designer of the first laptop computer, will helm the Smithsonian-affiliated museum as of March.
Although Jeffrey Deitch will shut down his Deitch Projects space in SoHo when he becomes director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, L magazine points out there’s still five more months of life for his NY projects.
Lastly, the New York Times checked in with Frank Serpico, a legendary anti-corruption figure in the NYPD, and noted he’s still bitter “that the department’s museum in Lower Manhattan declined his offer of his uniform and his service revolver.”
Picture credit: Construction crews at Hamilton Grange on Saturday. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
January 24, 2010 2:31 PM in Museums
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