Location
Santa Fe, NM
The new 54,000sf museum and its public garden space will complete the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s intimate campus in downtown Santa Fe. The design of the new building evolved through an understanding of place, adjacent context, and zoning codes, as well as through a study of Miss O’Keeffe’s life, her art, and her depiction of form and mass within her paintings.
The geomorphic adobe forms and buttresses of the project are created by a true adobe brick facade and are scaled to sit harmoniously within the context of adjacent buildings, enhancing downtown Santa Fe’s unique sense of place. The building is intentionally pulled back from the existing property lines to widen the adjacent sidewalks and alleyway, providing an an urban amenity to support all of the diverse events, festivals, and activities for which downtown Santa Fe is famous.
In addition to gallery spaces, the new Museum will also have a basement with collections storage and staff work areas, an education and multipurpose wing, and a gift store. The existing Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will remain open to visitors until the new building is open. Construction began in summer of 2025 and will be complete in late autumn of 2027.