“I am absolutely jazzed by this new facility,” Hancock said. He was there when the DAM broke ground on the new Martin Building. Mayor Hancock made an appearance at the event. “And it’s our deepest hope that these reimagined indoor and outdoor museum spaces will keep serving the community’s need for joy, creativity and healing for all.” I think the events of the past year have reaffirmed that art really matters, that need we have in our lives for art and the impact it can have,” said Denver Art Museum Board Chairman Lanny Martin. “While the pandemic has created layers of deep sadness and challenge for our communities, families and organizations, it’s also created opportunity to reflect and create. One of the obstacles they had to overcome was a delay caused by COVID. Stairs into the Denver Art Museum's newly opened Sie Welcome Center. “I think we were so lucky we had the stars align, because whenever we bumped into something that wouldn’t allow us to move forward, there came a solution, or there came something along the way that really helped us.” On Wednesday morning, museum representatives, community members and press gathered for a special media event in the newly constructed Sie Welcome Center, in a large, airy conference room with floor to ceiling curved glass panels offering views of Civic Center. And you can check it out later this month. The $175 million project offers a unified, expanded campus complete with new welcome center, educational spaces, and more inclusive collections, as well as a complete reconstruction of the Ponti Building, now dubbed the Lanny and Sharon Martin Building. Beaty/Denverite Now, after almost four years of construction, the Denver Art Museum reconstruction is finally finished. The Denver Public Library's central branch and the Denver Art Museum's new Sie Welcome Center seen from atop of the DAM's Martin Building. They saw that he’d initially had a greater vision for the building’s rooftop, and had even planned a pavilion there. The DAM team dug up some old drawings from Gio Ponti, the architect who designed the Ponti building, which was constructed about 50 years ago. “And that is not a great use for 10,000 square foot of the nicest Denver real estate, with beautiful city views, with mountain views from Pikes Peak to Longs Peak and back again, and Mount Evans.” “The only person who was up there was our security guard who brought the flag up in the morning and down in the evening,” said museum director Christoph Heinrich. About a decade ago, the DAM team started talking about the Ponti Building on the North side of the campus, how it was in need of renovations, and how the building’s roof – which once used to be used for events, but hadn’t for years – was underutilized. The Denver Art Museum has been under construction for almost four years now, but the new campus is closer to ten years in the making.
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