The Museum's featured exhibition galleries are being transformed once more. This time the stage is being set for Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960. Even with paper mock ups in place, it looks amazing. This exhibition will take up the entire exhibition space in the Bloch Building. If you saw Developing Greatness last year, imagine that on steriods.
Installation will continue for about a week so I hope to be able to show you some of that. Security is pretty tight on this exhibition because there are works of art coming from museums all over the world including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), the National Railway Museum (London), the National Gallery in both London and Washington D.C., Musee d'Orsay (Paris), the Walters Art Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore), the St. Louis Art Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, the National Gallery of Canada and of course, the Union Pacific Railroad Museum, all the way from Council Bluffs, IA.
For now, the art waits patiently in these crates that were shipped from the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool where the exhibition debuted in April. The exhibition opens Sept. 13 so its good to know that the wait won't be much longer.