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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF MUSEUM
RENOVATION AND EXPANSION
City Council
December 12, 2023
Museum of Riverside
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2 • Preservation
– 1912 Post Office Building
– Central downtown location
• Purpose-Built New Construction
– Visitors first!
– Updated ADA access
– Versatile new galleries
– Enlarged and improved
Nature Lab
– Roof terrace
– Dedicated classroom
– Support spaces, loading dock
GENERAL GOALS
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3 • Streetscape
– Adds and improves green
space
– Addition does not overwhelm
historic structure
• Purposeful choices
– Equitable access
– Plantings chosen for
educational potential
– Mission Inn Avenue setback
remains available for
programming
– Integrity of historic building
features maintained
FEATURES
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4 • Human Scale
– Significant effort to
ensure that the
expansion does not
overwhelm the
historic building at
the Mission Inn
Avenue elevation.
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5 • Balancing Past and Present
– The design maintains
attractive proportions
between old and new
structures
– Small updates and
upgrades will be made to
the historic structure
without “restoring”
elements removed during
previous interventions
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6 • Activating the Exterior
– Windows serve as “lenses”
directed toward
important local sites
– The rectangular structure
is visually enhanced by
the window array yet
retains its ability to be
enlivened by light
projections on the
exterior.
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7 • “Lenses” onto the City
– While not obvious to the
casual observer, the idea
of the building’s apertures
being designed to aim
toward key City locations
is one the staff can
interpret during tours.
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8 • Making the Most of the Site
– The site footprint will
remain essentially the
same.
– The photovoltaic array
forms the shade
structure for the roof
terrace.
– Landscaping enhances
all elevations.
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9 • Interior Richness
– New Orange Street entrance
will provide clear sightlines to
admissions desk and how to
reach upper floors
– A double-height glass wall to
feature collections provides
immediate visual impact
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10 • Attention to Detail
– Spacious integration of old
and new structures
– New Nature Lab
prominently located on
first floor
– Historic south façade
symbolically indicated in
new Orange Street lobby
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11 • Flexibility
– Historic arches become
exhibition cases
– Doors within arches help
maintain gallery
environments
– Open space within historic
structure available for both
exhibitions and events
– Lobby provides tour
orientation space
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12 • Transitions
– Historic and new structures
linked by a bridge, a
spacious elevator, and a
staircase
– Neutral fixtures and finishes
that won’t compete with
exhibition content and
changing exhibition
designs
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13 • Managing Use of Space
– The historic structure will
have a less closely
controlled environment,
requiring staff to select
exhibitions with care
– Impactful vertical opening
from first floor up to historic
skylight
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14 • Roof Terrace
– The roof terrace will be
open whenever the
Museum is open
– Plantings will be chosen for
their teaching value
– The terrace will also be a
gathering space for
programs and events of up
to 80-100 people
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15 • The Building
– An animated
downtown site
– A leading downtown
event participant
GOALS AND OUTCOMES
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16 • The Programs
– Exhibitions
– Exhibition-based public
programs
– Stand-alone programs
– Pre-K to gray education
– Collaborative programs
– Community events
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17 • Exhibitions
– About Riverside
– Relevant to Riversiders’
lives
– Support curriculum
– Informed by public input
and public surveys
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18 • Possible Exhibition Topics
– Where Are All the Dinosaurs?
Riverside’s Prehistoric Past
– Robotics Now
– Architecture in Riverside
– Backyard Natural Wonders
– What River? The Story of the
Santa Ana
– Cut! Riverside at the Movies
– Our Immigrant Background
– Riverside Noir: The Dark Side of
Our Fair City
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19 • Exhibitions
– Interactive
– Interdisciplinary
– Multi-generational
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20 • Exhibitions
– Two-story exhibit wall
for Riverside’s unique
stories
– Tech portals to more
information
– Well scripted
– Beautifully designed
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21 • Exhibitions to Reopen
– I M / Migration
– Foodways
– Riverside’s Stories
– New Nature Lab
GOALS AND OUTCOMES
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22 Exhibition-Based Public Programs
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23 Pre-K Through 12 Education
GOALS AND OUTCOMES
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24 Collaborative Programs
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25 Community Events
GOALS AND OUTCOMES
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26 Community Events
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27 • Community Events
Focused on What People
Love …
– Having fun
– Music, food, & drink
– Being together
– Creativity
– Being astonished
– Energy
– Optimism
GOALS AND OUTCOMES
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28 The project has and will continue
to benefit from …
– Community engagement
sessions
– Peer review
– Board and commission
support
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
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29 The construction
schedule is yet to be
determined.
Anticipated
reopening in 2026.
PATH FORWARD
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30 Strategic Priority: Arts, Culture, and Recreation
Action 1.1.3: Complete the Museum of Riverside renovation and expansion project to enrich the Mission Inn Avenue
cultural corridor.
Cross-Cutting Threads
STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT
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31 That the City Council:
1. Approve the design approach for the renovation and
expansion of the Museum of Riverside’s downtown site at 3580 Mission Inn Avenue;
2. By at least five affirmative votes, authorize the Chief Financial Officer, or designee, to record an interfund transfer from General Fund Infrastructure Reserve to the Capital Outlay Fund in the amount of $10,000,000;
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32 That the City Council:
3. By at least five affirmative votes, authorize the Chief Financial Officer, or designee, to appropriate $10,000,000 in the Capital Outlay Fund, Museum Expansion and Renovation
project account; and
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33 That the City Council:
4. Determine the project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review pursuant to Sections 15301 (Existing Facilities), 15331 (Historic Resource
Restoration/Rehabilitation), and 15332 (In-fill Development), as it constitutes rehabilitation and less than 10,000 square foot increase in size of an existing historic resource within an urbanized area that is consistent with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.
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