The Whitworth Gallery, in England’s booming second city, Manchester, is a cultural institution that took a walk in the park back in 1889—it was the first English art museum to adopt a parkland rather than urban setting—and now has taken another. The story is a familiar one: venerable creaking-at-the-seams regional establishment receives total makeover and expansion to accommodate a growing collection and audience. But it is rarely done so convincingly as this. Its ingenious addition embraces the landscape and transforms the old building, in what is the breakout project for its architects, MUMA.
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