Hasta La Ideas

Beside a sprinkling here and there of random bits of news, the Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup-designed National Museum of African American History and Culture is in that pre-construction, still-planning period where there isn’t a whole lot to talk about until it starts to take form (it’s currently set to break ground sometime next year and be completed in 2015). However, this weekend marked some new word on the interiors of the museum, the commission for which has been handed to Ralph Appelbaum Associates, who will create all of the exhibitions for the museum, covering, as the Washington Post reports, roughly 82,000 square feet of space. If you’ve been to a museum, particularly in DC, but really any museum and almost anywhere in the world, you’ve likely seen the firm’s work. They’ve designed exhibitions inside the Newseum, the Natural History Museum, the New York Public Library, and temporary installations like Volkswagen‘s traveling Autostadt from a few years ago. While there are till several years to go, nice to get the occasional peek at the progress of one of the Smithsonian‘s largest new museum projects in recent history.

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