The Frick Collection Second Floor

The grand staircase at the frick collection photo by michael bodycomb the second floor rooms are set to be converted into galleries providing a home for those members of the museum s 1 200.

The frick collection second floor.

A rendering of the frick collection from east 70th street in manhattan showing the plan for an expanded second level right over the reception area. Michael bodycomb beyond the grand staircase rope since the museum opened in 1935 nearly every visitor has stood at the bottom of the magnificent marble staircase gazing past the rope and imagining what lies beyond. Take a virtual tour. The footprint of the room was created by combining the former ladies dressing room part of the butler s pantry and the adjoining silver safe.

They now reside in the ground floor boucher room where they coexist with luxurious french decorative arts. Its 1930s building is beside the museum but not actually connected to it. Frick s private boudoir on the second floor when the home was converted into a museum in the 1930s. The frick collection renovation includes a new passageway linking the museum and the library.

More intimate than the grand galleries of the main floor these second floor spaces are particularly well suited for the display of the frick s collection of smaller scale decorative arts sculpture drawings and cabinet pictures many of which are rarely displayed. The frick family bought the panels in 1916 and originally installed them in adelaide frick s second floor boudoir. This new construction will create much needed new educational rooms on its first floor and a cafe with views of central park on the second floor.