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March 06, 2008, 09:29 AM ET
U. of Nebraska Prepares to Open Quilt Center by Stern
The quilt center’s facade was designed to suggest glass panels stitched together. (Photo by Dave Kostelnik)
The University of Nebraska at Lincoln will open a new 37,000-square-foot International Quilt Study Center & Museum on March 30. The $12-million building, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, offers galleries, meeting spaces, areas for quilt research, and climate-controlled storage for more than 2,300 quilts in four major collections.
Visitors to the three-story building will walk up a ramp inside the curved, glass facade to reach a reception hall that overlooks the university’s east campus and also offers access to three galleries. The building is on track to achieve a silver rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. The architect of record is Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture, of Omaha.
The quilt-study center, founded in 1997, has been located until now in the Home Economics Building. The center offers the world’s only graduate program in quilt history. Its collections include important examples of African-American and Pennsylvania Amish quilts, as well as other quilts of interest to quilt historians. A recent addition is a 48-block Great Quilt made for the U.S. Bicentennial and exhibited from 1974 to 1976. It has not been exhibited since.
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