The Harvard Art Museums, during renovation and expansion, November 21, 2013.LESVANTS.COM

Curators at the Harvard Art Museums are spending the summer installing works in the new Renzo Piano-designed building, which has significantly boosted the university’s ability to display its wide-ranging collections. They’re working toward November 16, the date when Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum, closed six years ago for renovation and expansion, reopens as part of a new entity uniting three previously separate university museums.

The long-awaited project will bring together under one roof for the first time the Fogg’s European and American artworks, the Busch-Reisinger Museum with art from Central and Northern Europe, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum’s holdings of antiquities and Asian art. It adds 40 percent more exhibition space, a 300-seat theater, classrooms, and study and conservation centers—the latest in a growing string of museum designs by Piano’s firm, Renzo Piano Building Workshop....Continue Reading

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