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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 art museum to close for two-year construction project

Sheila Gibson Stoodley
Sheila Gibson Stoodley
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.

The pavilion is set to open sometime in 2024 and will be named for philanthropists and longtime museum supporters Rhonda and Howard Hawks. Howard Hawks is a founder of Omaha-based energy company Tenaska and is a former member and chairman of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.

The project will add 42,000 feet to the museum. Joslyn executive director and CEO Jack Becker has said the closure in necessary for the protection of staff and valuable art during the height of the construction phase.

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