SCAD Museum

The SCAD Museum of Art is a contemporary art and design museum conceived and designed expressly to enrich the educational milieu of SCAD students and professors, and to attract and delight visitors from around the world. The existing museum was housed in an 1856 Greek Revival structure that was once home to the headquarters of the Central of Georgia Railway.

This landmark rehabilitation project, the largest in SCAD history, advances the university's award-winning legacy of adaptive reuse and urban revitalization. The $26 million expansion will add 65,000 square feet to the museum's existing facility and features many notable design elements, including a prominent new entrance marked by an 86-foot tall steel and glass lantern; a contradistinctive facade uniting original 19th-century Savannah gray brick with modern composite materials; a manicured courtyard and streetscape; outdoor lecture and performance spaces; and an events terrace and adjoining atrium.

Inside, the expansion grants an increase in overall space to more than 82,000 square feet total, enabling the museum to present engaging exhibitions and installations from renowned and emerging artists, as well as showcase works from the university's diverse permanent collection. Much of the museum's expansion and redesign has focused on art stewardship, as evidenced by dedicated areas for shipment, quarantine, framing and de-framing, curatorial supply storage and art conservation.

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