Arts & Culture | April 19, 2012

Update on Harvard's Fogg Art Museum reconstruction

An aerial view of the Fogg art Museum reconstruction.

From The May-June 2012 Issue

Photograph by Les Vants Aerial Photos / courtesy of Harvard Art Museums

A (snowless) late-winter aerial view of the Fogg Art Museum reconstruction shows a huge crane—put in place once new subsurface floors were built—beginning to place the steel frame for the new Prescott Street entrance. In April, the reopening was deferred; it is now scheduled for fall 2014.

Published in the May-June 2012 print issue under the headline “Taking Shape,” in the John Harvard's Journal section.

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