Memphis Art Museum Announces Opening Date for New Herzog & de Meuron–Designed Home

The American South will have a new and expanded museum to visit come December 6, when Tennessee’s Memphis Art Museum (formerly the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art) reopens. The 123,500-square-foot cultural campus, designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architects Herzog & de Meuron, expands the institution’s gallery space by half and, per the museum, offers “six times more art-filled free public space.” The new facility was initially tagged at $180 million, report