Tue 4/6-Sun 8/22
When the Akron Art Museum opened its expansive new building, designed by the Austrian architectural firm of Coop Himmelb(l)au, in 2007, it was able to show a significant part of its impressive collection for the first time. Previously, it could only hint at its stored riches in a single, small room.
Still, even the current galleries can’t show more than a layer of that collection. So, like the Cleveland Museum of Art, with its current Stories from Storage exhibit, it’s taken the opportunity presented by the pandemic — with touring exhibits disrupted by museum closures — to look inward at its own vaults for its new show Reconsidered: Works from the Collection, which goes on view in the Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries on Tuesday April 6. They’re promising to pull out some works that haven’t been seen recently and promise to “share information about these works with our visitors in new and unique ways.” That includes new interactive elements.
Learn more at Akron Art Museum’s website. The Museum is currently open Thursday-Saturday and admission is free.