Overview
- The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art, which announced the plan Wednesday, set construction for spring 2027 and a public opening in fall 2029.
- Kengo Kuma & Associates will lead the design with Schwartz/Silver and Field Operations, delivering the firm’s first U.S. museum as wood-clad pavilions shaped by the site.
- A 40,000-square-foot building will add 14,000 square feet of galleries for an 80% increase in exhibition space, and the 19th-century mill will retain galleries and gain new education spaces after recent flood-hardening.
- Field Operations will expand the grounds into a 325-acre public preserve with about ten miles of trails linking the two museums and the historic studios of N. C. and Andrew Wyeth.
- Brandywine says it has raised nearly half of the roughly $100 million budget, including Wyeth family support, and expects the larger campus to lift annual attendance by about 20%.