Glenbow Museum | 43m | 9s | DIALOG

[Morshed]

This is my favorite project to watch now! My kids love the place and the free admission is a blast! Thanks God there were no solar panels involved since they bring bad luck.

 

[AJX]

Shaw Shmaw , I’m going to continue to call it the Glenbow.

 

[Roaring Flames]

Sorry to bump this thread, but does anyone know when exterior work will start on this?

 

[outoftheice]

Don't know about when work will begin but the temporary home for Glenbow exhibits officially opened at The Edison today.

Visiting Glenbow

Closure & Reopening Glenbow is currently closed for renovations as we transform the museum through Glenbow Reimagined, our campaign to deliver a revitalized museum with you — our community — at its core. Glenbow will reopen in its renovated home, the JR Shaw Centre for Arts & Culture, in 2026...

www.glenbow.org

 

[Roaring Flames]

Not much news on this except for a new donation

We're thrilled to announce a $1.5M gift from the Michelle O’Reilly Foundation that will help transform Glenbow's fifth floor rooftop terrace into an expansive outdoor gathering space.

Learn more about the Glenbow Reimagined campaign ➡️ https://t.co/iwb5IOkjsm#GlenbowReimagined pic.twitter.com/gXqjvJchQl

— Glenbow (@Glenbow) May 3, 2022

 

[Roaring Flames]

Here's a collection of the available renders so far on the Glenbow site:​

File Title: Render 1 Sky Final ↓

File Title: Render 2 ↓

File Title: Entrance Desk ↓

File Title: Art Racks ↓

File Title: Shaw Salon Gallery ↓

File Title: Black box 2 Not Black 1 ↓

File Title: 2nd Floor Gallery ↓

File Title: Eventspace ↓

File Title: 5th Floor Lobby ↓

File Title: Sculpture Garden ↓

 

[Silence&Motion]

There are also detailed floor layouts for the new building available here: https://www.glenbow.org/renovation-plan/

I'm guessing they haven't released any details about the programming yet. It's interesting that these renderings make the Glenbow look like a standard art museum. However, the existing building had very little space dedicated to conventional paintings and sculpture. It was mostly an anthropological and local history museum. Almost every gallery was themed, "edu-tainment" style. It will be interesting to see what parts of the collection make it into the new building. I would be quite happy if they lent out their local history (including local military history) collection to Fort Calgary, Heritage Park, and the Military Museum. Like seriously, how many museums does Calgary need to display WWI uniforms and vintage gas station signs.

 

[Roaring Flames]

Here's the detailed floor layouts:​

 

[outoftheice]

New (?) funding announced today for Glenbow and a new rendering of the central section of the museum.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1522290154907574272

 

[Mountain Man]

Wow!

 

[darwink]

New (?) funding announced today for Glenbow and a new rendering of the central section of the museum.

Yes new. They didn't get a full announcement today for whatever reason - guess the crew from the Springbankl dam announcement didn't have time!

 

[Roaring Flames]

The statement mentions that they have received $152 million so far in funding which is the same number mentioned during the Shaw funding announcement. So this appears to just be a reaffirmation of funding.

 

[darwink]

The statement mentions that they have received $152 million so far in funding which is the same number mentioned during the Shaw funding announcement. So this appears to just be a reaffirmation of funding.

So, the federal amount hadn't been announced. Glenbow has accidentally implied or announced the federal contribution multiple times, including about a year ago. I imagine if COVID-19 had proceeded better, it would have been announced earlier.

Likely the deal was signed about a year ago, and they haven't been very careful about the communications annex in the agreement which requires a months notice if any communications is going out about the project's federal involvement.

 

[CT (Chinese_T)]

The reclad has begun

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577365473129283596

 

[Roaring Flames]

The new second story feature gallery will be named the Werklund Exhibition Gallery after Dave Werklund and Susan Norman-Werklund donated $3.5 Million dollars to the Glenbow Reimagined project.
https://calgaryherald.com/entertain...to-name-new-gallery-in-honour-of-major-donors