Founded in 1977, the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NMCA) is a leading destination for new art and new ideas. It is Manhattan’s only dedicated contemporary art museum and is respected internationally for the adventurousness and global scope of its curatorial program. The New Museum’s SANAA-designed Bowery building has held more than 175 exhibitions featuring over 700 artists from more than sixty-five countries as well as over 1,700 public programs. 

The New Museum’s new 60,000 sq. ft OMA-designed addition will open in 2025. The expanded campus will provide state of the art facilities for artists and visitors, including an expanded lobby and visitor welcome area, a central grand atrium stair and atrium sculpture space, a new public forum, an artist studio, a new media lab, and an outdoor sculpture plaza. An FCI Implementation grant will support the energy efficiency initiative of its newly expanded campus. This project will install LED energy efficient lighting in its new galleries, as well as replace fluorescent lighting with LED in its existing galleries. The combined area of the current and new galleries will total 34,000 square feet, the single largest series of public spaces within the Museum, seamlessly connected on floors two, three and four. This project will enable a 42 percent reduction in energy use across the New Museum, supporting a lowered annual carbon footprint that is crucial as we double our size and service through our major capital expansion project. Additional climate-forward features include, among others, a photovoltaic roof, a zero-waste and carbon neutral restaurant, and increased efficiencies in lighting and HVAC systems.