{"id":254916,"date":"2026-01-24T06:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/254916\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:57:15","slug":"memphis-art-museum-unveils-new-look-at-planned-downtown-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/254916\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Art Museum unveils new look at planned downtown location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; With less than a year to go before its planned open date downtown, the Memphis Art Museum has unveiled new renderings of what the finished building will look like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The new 123,500-square-foot building on Front Street will feature 50% more gallery space and six times more art-filled free and public spaces than its current location at Overton Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The museum will include a 10,000-square-foot community courtyard, a 50,000-square-foot rooftop \u201cart park in the sky,\u201d an outdoor amphitheater with a view of the Mississippi River, and an expansive pedestrian plaza that will be shared by the museum and Cossitt Library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWith this building, our ambition is to be nothing less than transformational for Memphis. The city and its museum will rise as the most important and inspiring cultural destination in the Southeast\u2013a place that draws people from near and far to experience the power of art, creativity, and community,\u201d Executive Director Zoe Kahr said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The museum is slated to open in December 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to sign up for our newsletter!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfpc96d0EDHinF_AovDBi4RNoKbBfRbCIJiTWqF7p1VNE6ZNA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to report a spelling or grammar error. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WMC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; With less than a year to go before its planned open date downtown, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[787,437,434,435,436,22742,220,86318,438,60967,86314,146,86317,86312,85,46,63429,14549,135265,86311,86316,86315,17268,135266,9823,86319,2012,86320,86313,86308,86310,86309],"class_list":["post-254916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-bartlett","tag-breaking-news","tag-collierville","tag-design","tag-downtown","tag-east-arkansas","tag-entertainment","tag-germantown","tag-i-40","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-location","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-art-museum","tag-mid-south","tag-missouri-boothill","tag-north-mississippi","tag-olive-branch","tag-renderings","tag-severe-weather","tag-southaven","tag-tourism","tag-west-memphis","tag-west-tennessee","tag-wmc-action-news-5","tag-wmc5","tag-wmctv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}