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Francis Kéré Reveals Design for Las Vegas Museum of Art, Targeting 2029 Opening

The 60,000-square-foot Symphony Park museum will present works on loan from LACMA under a community-centered model.

Overview

  • Renderings show a mosaic facade of locally sourced stone with tones drawn from the Red Rock Mountains and a broad shaded entry canopy.
  • Interiors organize around a canyon-like grand stair rising to calm second-floor galleries shaped by Paul R. Williams’s influence.
  • Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is the architect of record supporting delivery of Kéré Architecture’s design.
  • The project has an estimated $200 million budget including endowment, with major gifts linked to the late Elaine Wynn, and the campaign reported past the halfway mark.
  • An interim 15,000-square-foot gallery and media lab near the site opens in 2026, with groundbreaking planned for 2027.