October 14, 2004 – May 2, 2005
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Building an Institution
The transformation of the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts into the Racine Art Museum involved more than a name-change and a new building. It necessitated collaboration between dozens of people from all walks of life: architects and designers, arts patrons and museum curators, contractors and steel fabricators. The result of their efforts is a museum—in both the architectural and institutional sense of the word—with the power to transform the community of Racine.
Each installment of the Chicago Architecture Foundation's Road Trip series focuses on a different architecturally significant location in the Midwest. Racine Art Museum: Building an Institution was made possible with assistance from the Racine Art Museum and Karen Johnson Boyd, as well as with the generous support of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and the S.C. Johnson Fund.