HGA Museums and Cultural Centers

MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER EXPERTISE

Walker Art Center

We design for the celebration of human life.

DICK HAMMEL Co-Founder, HGA

Established in 1953, HGA is a national, award winning firm built on the belief that impactful design results from the inspired application of original insight into the human condition.

The drive for deep understanding shapes the way we collaborate and deploy the diverse resources within our firm. It’s how we deliver unexpected solutions that provide added value. Ultimately, it’s the way we create a legacy for our clients and ourselves.

CONTACT Amy Braford Whittey, Assoc. AIA Associate Vice President National Business Developer for the Arts ABrafordWhittey@hga.com D 612.758.4333 | M 612.554.0603 420 N 5th Street, Suite 100 Minneapolis, MN 55401

Winona County History Museum

Milwaukee Art Museum

MUSEUM EXPERTISE Working with HGA becomes a partnership grounded in collaboration, trust, and communication.

Along the way we strive to learn more about you than you perhaps even know yourself, as we dive deep into the essential elements of your institution’s mission, goals and hopes. We ask essential questions at the right time and listen profoundly to your answers. We earn the right to challenge you. Usually, there is a lot of fun to be had along the way. And ultimately, HGA will deliver a project that works, lasts and inspires.

100+ COMPLETED CULTURAL & MUSEUM PROJECTS 800+ REGIONAL & NATIONAL AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE

Walker Art Center

CREATIVITY & INSPIRATION HGA’s dedicated cultural design studio is a tight-knit collective of architects, designers and engineers who thrive in a highly collaborative, creative environment, rather than as individual design stars. We love what we do, and are driven to create inspiring and lasting work for our clients. Our inspiration comes from the deep understanding of vision and goals, and relationships that we develop with our clients. We are fueled by our own personal connections to culture, community, and place. Above all, we are honored to play a role in helping our clients make an enduring impact on our world by creating designs that meld beauty, originality, and inspiration.

We’re one gateway to downtown Minneapolis, and we think of this as a kind of once-in-ageneration opportunity to shape that entry.

OLGA VISO Former Executive Director, Walker Art Center

Walker Art Center

Milwaukee Art Museum

Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin

Harley Davidson Museum

VISITOR EXPERIENCE & ENGAGEMENT Museum design is constantly evolving, shifting, and adapting to reach new audiences and be inclusive of every generation. Today’s museums are vibrant, interactive hubs for inspiration, presentation, and education. Designed with the visitor experience in mind, museums are striving to engage audiences in new and innovative ways, with interactive exhibits, creative amenities to extend the visitor’s stay, flexible performance spaces, and visible storage solutions to provide greater access to collections. These cultural centers are integral members of their communities, providing places to gather, celebrate, and socialize.

MUSEUM INNOVATION Designing extraordinary cultural facilities requires expertise, imagination, and innovation. Over the past six decades, HGA has developed a reputation for bringing these elements together to great success. All of the experts on our multidisciplinary project teams—architects, engineers, interior designers, and specialists—understand the unique requirements for museums and work to provide options for solutions in the early design stages, saving time and money.

As museums have evolved, so has our expertise. We are constantly researching, reaching out to leaders in the field, attending our clients’ professional conferences, and learning from them directly about the future of the field. We understand the current economic, programmatic and sustainability challenges and opportunities that organizations need to address, and we work with our clients to envision the future.

Tennessee State Museum (photographs by Robin Conover)

The Museum is a stunning cultural achievement, demonstrating the State’s commitment to preserving the heritage and legacy of Tennesseans.

MARIA PIACENTE Vice President of Exhibitions, Lord Cultural Resource

Tennessee State Museum

North Dakota Heritage Center

PLANNING & DESIGN Our cultural practice studio is a highly skilled, focused group of architects, planners and engineers who understand the specialized technical requirements of museum design. We have gone through the learning curve on many museum and cultural center projects, ranging from world class art museums to hands-on learning environments for people of all ages. Because our experience spans the country, we are able to benchmark among similar institutions to help our clients understand what their peers are doing. We provide technical expertise to execute quality design concepts with buildable, cost effective approaches and integrated engineering solutions, including: 1. EXTERIOR DESIGN that reflect your objectives, whether an iconic statement to create a new identity or a contextually sensitive approach to enhance your existing environs.

5. COLLECTION PROTECTION SPACES that are designed for the preservation, storage, repair and research of objects and archives.

6. LECTURE/AUDITORIUM SPACES that provide multiuse performance and gathering venues.

2. VISITOR EXPERIENCE needs that include welcoming and accessible amenities for food services, retail space, patron service areas and integrated wayfinding/ communication.

7. ADMINISTRATIVE/OPERATIONS AREAS that provide flexible, creative and functional back of house space now and into the future.

3. PERMANENT & SPECIAL EXHIBITION SPACES that provide flexible, technically advanced gallery space for a broad range of exhibits and related uses.

8. TECHNICAL FACILITY CONSIDERATIONS such as temperature and humidity controls, air quality, power/ lighting systems, fire and security systems, vibration and acoustics, etc.

4. EDUCATION/OUTREACH AMENITIES that engage and enrich your visitors’ experiences and encourage return visits.

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American Swedish Institute (all images)

We selected HGA because of their great talent and their expressed passion for creating something very special for us that carefully complements the architectural landmark status of the Turnblad Mansion.

BRUCE KARSTADT President/CEO, American Swedish Institute

Design driven by insight.

Museum of the North

Winona County History Museum

Clockwise from top left: Walker Art Center, Walker Art Center, Walker Art Center, Milwaukee Art Museum, American Swedish Institute, Walker Art Museum

North Dakota Heritage Center

PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT

Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) with David Chipperfield

Bowdoin College Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

Pennsylvania State Archives

Children’s Museum of Cheyenne

Architect of the Capitol Visitor Center

OUR CLIENTS AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE Minneapolis, Minnesota | WALKER ART CENTER Minneapolis, Minnesota | HARLEY DAVIDSON MUSEUM Milwaukee, Wisconsin | BOWDOIN COLLEGE PEARY-MACMILLAN ARCTIC MUSEUM Brunswick, Maine | CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM Sacramento, California | MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM Raleigh, North Carolina | ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER Washington, DC | MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART Milwaukee, Wisconsin | MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART (Mia) Minneapolis, Minnesota | PENNSYLVANIA STATE ARCHIVES Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: MONTICELLO Charlottesville, Virginia | CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNE Cheyenne, Wyoming | HILLER AVIATION MUSEUM San Carlos, California | TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM Nashville, Tennessee | PENNSYLVANIA MILITARY MUSEUM Boalsburg, Pennsylvania | MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Milwaukee, Wisconsin | STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF IOWA Des Moines, Iowa | GATEWAY TO SCIENCE Bismarck, North Dakota | NORTH DAKOTA HERITAGE CENTER Bismarck, North Dakota | SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA Saint Paul, Minnesota | MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART West Bend, Wisconsin | MACALESTER COLLEGE JANET WALLACE FINE ARTS CENTER GALLERY Saint Paul, Minnesota | MINNESOTA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM (ROCHESTER) Rochester, Minnesota | MINNESOTA ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN Apple Valley, Minnesota | WEISMAN ART MUSEUM (WAM) Minneapolis, Minnesota | MUSCOGEE (CREEK) NATION MUSEUM, CULTURAL CENTER & ARCHIVES Okmulgee, Oklahoma | ST. LOUIS ART MUSEUM St. Louis, Missouri | WINONA COUNTY HISTORY CENTER Winona, Minnesota | CALIFORNIA AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM (CAAM) Los Angeles, California | GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART Charleston, South Carolina | ONEIDA NATION MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER Oneida, Wisconsin | DISCOVERY WORLD AT PIER WISCONSIN Milwaukee, Wisconsin | HISTORIC FORT SNELLING VISITOR CENTER Saint Paul, Minnesota | UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM OF THE NORTH Fairbanks, Alaska | DA VINCI SCIENCE CENTER Allentown, Pennsylvania | NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY DEVOS ART MUSEUM Marquette, Michigan | COMO PARK EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER Saint Paul, Minnesota | ROCHESTER ART CENTER Rochester, Minnesota | RACINE HERITAGE MUSEUM Racine, Wisconsin | SANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY Santa Cruz, California | MADISON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Madison, Wisconsin | MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY KRESGE ART MUSEUM Troy, Michigan | PRINCE GEORGE'S AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER Brentwood, Maryland | DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER Santa Ana, California | DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART Dubuque, Iowa | GREAT LAKES AQUARIUM AT LAKE SUPERIOR CENTER Duluth, Minnesota | MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM Milwaukee, Wisconsin | ST. OLAF COLLEGE FLATEN ART MUSEUM Northfield, Minnesota | FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES MUSEUM Muscogee, Oklahoma | MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Saint Paul, Minnesota | PLAINS ART MUSEUM Fargo, North Dakota | SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Washington, DC | BISHOP MUSEUM Honolulu, Hawaii | SCIENCE CITY AT UNION STATION Kansas City, Missouri | SCIENCE PLACE MUSEUM Dallas, Texas | SCI-PORT DISCOVERY CENTER Shreveport, Louisiana | WOMEN OF THE WEST MUSEUM Boulder, Colorado | OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY Portland, Oregon | CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | MINNESOTA HISTORY CENTER Saint Paul, Minnesota | US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER SPACEDOME Huntsville, Alabama | GULF COAST EXPLOREUM SCIENCE CENTER Mobile, Alabama | THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY HENRY CROWN SPACE CENTER Chicago, Illinois | MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY Fort Worth, Texas | MUSEUM OF SCIENCE Boston, Massachusetts

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