Overview
- The Met held an official groundbreaking on Sept. 15, 2026, to begin construction of the Oscar L. and H. M. Agnes Hsu‑Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art.
- The project will replace the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing with a five‑storey, 126,000‑square‑foot building that adds about 69,500 square feet of exhibition space and is scheduled to open in 2030.
- Frida Escobedo, the Mexican architect who will be the first woman to design a wing at the Met, proposed a limestone celosía façade, an expanded fourth‑floor roof garden, and a new fifth‑floor terrace facing Central Park.
- The initiative was launched by a catalytic gift from Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu‑Tang and the museum says it has raised $670 million for the project, a sum the Met reports exceeds the wing’s construction budget.
- Museum leaders say the Tang Wing will reframe how 20th‑ and 21st‑century works are shown against the Met’s historic collections, increase emphasis on modern and contemporary Asian art, and improve accessibility and energy performance as construction proceeds.