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Campaign for the Future Construction Update

If you have visited the Chrysler lately, you can not have failed to notice that renovation work is in full swing. Thanks to generous gifts to the Museum’s Campaign for the Future, construction began in early April on the new George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Theatre and on The Norfolk Foundation Art Education Center.

The creation of the 366-seat Kaufman Theatre will provide the Museum with a beautiful and state-of-the-art space for lectures, films, and educational programs and as well an elegant venue for musical and theatrical performances by community groups. Completion is scheduled for December 2004.

The Norfolk Foundation Art Education Center will bring together in a single interior “campus” education department offices, a renovated Diamonstein Workshop (home for the Museum’s expanded program of studio art classes), a enhanced Gifford Seminar Room, and a new gallery for the display of artwork by young people throughout Hampton Roads.

Outside the Museum work has begun on the creation of “Mary’s Garden”—a lovely new oasis and program space on the west side of the building. And this month we will begin the process of converting the historic Willoughby-Baylor House in downtown Norfolk into a new museum of regional history.

Unavoidably all of this construction will result in a certain amount of disruption and some closed gallery spaces; and we ask for your patience and understanding.

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