<\/a>Wadsworth Atheneum photography of reopening<\/p><\/div>\n
HARTFORD, CT \u2013 \u00a0<\/strong>The country\u2019s oldest art museum, Hartford\u2019s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, is new again. This weekend\u2019s grand reopening marked the completion of the multi-year, multi-phased renovation of these five interconnected buildings. Heralded by the New York Times\u2019<\/em> Roberta Smith as a \u201cmasterpiece of renovation,\u201d including 24 reopened galleries in the Wadsworth\u2019s Morgan Memorial Building, allowed 1,000 works to be reinstalled. Consigli\u2019s collaboration, included everything from masonry repair and gallery restoration to modernized building systems and art storage facilities.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen I started here eight years ago, the roofs leaked so badly that we had to close off entire galleries,\u201d said Susan L. Talbott, director and CEO of the Wadsworth, as quoted in the CT Post<\/em>. \u201cI could have hardly imagined that the museum would have undergone such a massive renovation,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cAnd when I say massive, it extended from basement to rooftop.\u00a0 It is thrilling, on the eve of my retirement to look at what we as a team have accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARTFORD, CT \u2013 \u00a0The country\u2019s oldest art museum, Hartford\u2019s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, is new again. This weekend\u2019s grand reopening marked the completion of the multi-year, multi-phased renovation of these five interconnected buildings. Heralded by the New York Times\u2019 Roberta Smith as a \u201cmasterpiece of renovation,\u201d including 24 reopened<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Wadsworth Atheneum Celebrates Reopening of Galleries After Five-Year Renovation - Consigli Construction<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n