Jewish Museum
Permanent Collection

2025
New York City
Arts / Institutional (Completed) 
8,000 SF 

This project reimagines the Jewish Museum’s Permanent Collection Galleries and Teaching and Learning Center, reshaping both the visitor experience and educational engagement with the historic collection of the first institution of its kind in the United States.

The design transforms the circulation through the galleries, creating a cohesive and accessible narrative across diverse artifacts. A new system of thickened walls incorporates niches, apertures, and seating areas, framing moments of close engagement while creating more open, uninterrupted exhibition spaces. Central display structures are designed to integrate and conceal existing structural columns, establishing expansive gallery rooms previously broken up into confusing fragments.

The galleries connect seamlessly to a Teaching and Learning Center that uses collection artifacts as anchors for cultural dialogue, hands-on educational programming, and community events. A tactile “touch wall” allows visitors to physically engage with select objects, broadening accessibility and interaction across a wide range of audiences.

The design fosters both individual reflection and collective participation, providing spaces for quiet, intimate encounters alongside larger gathering areas for group learning and discussion. This project demonstrates how architectural design can catalyze deeper connections between cultural institutions and their public, transforming traditional exhibition spaces into dynamic civic environments that center education, dialogue, and accessibility.

Selected Press

The Jewish Museum Highlights Its Holdings With New Spaces, the New York Times, October 2025.The Jewish Museum undergoes a major makeover, with brand-new galleries, a learning center and an installation of 130 Hanukkah lamps, TimeOut, October 2025. New York’s Jewish Museum unveils major overhaul by UNStudio, Method Design, and New Affiliates, Archinect, May 2025.