The Chrysler Museum of Art showcases new glass acquisitions as doors reopen to the public today

After an 18-month major expansion and renovation of its main building, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia opens to the public today with a 30-percent increase in the number of items in its glass collection on display, as well as greater connections to the activities of its glass studio. Proceeds from museum’s $45 million capital campaign—which included funding for the glass studio that opened in November 2011—financed this $24-million-project. An additional 10,000 square feet of exhibition space allows greater flexibiltiy for exhibiiton design as well as new paths for visitors to navigate the museum. Two new wings now flank the historic front entrance.

The museum, which will remain open until 10 PM today, unveils its brand-new Glass Focus Gallery, where an exhibition of the cast work of Czech husband-and-wife artists Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova are on view in the exhibition titled "Selections from the Lisa and Dudley Anderson Collection." New adjacencies for the permanent collection of glass, primarily from the donated collection of the late Walter Chrysler, Jr., and more of the work, is now on vie, tracing 5,000 years of history.

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