Omaha art museum to close for two-year construction project

Entrance to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. The museum will close in early May and remain closed for about two years while an $100 million pavilion is constructed. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit: akasped, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Entrance to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. The museum will close in early May and remain closed for about two years while an $100 million pavilion is constructed. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit: akasped, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Entrance to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. The museum will close in early May and remain closed for about two years while an $100 million pavilion is constructed. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit: akasped, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Omaha’s premier art museum is set to close its doors later this spring and stay closed for about two years as a new multi-million dollar pavilion is constructed. The Joslyn Art Museum near downtown Omaha will close on May 2 for construction of a new $100 million pavilion, which has already begun, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

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