Frick Collection reopens Fifth Avenue mansion after 5-year renovation
The Frick Collection reopens to the public on April 17, 2025 after a major renovation of its Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue, marking its return to the historic home for the first time in five years. The $220 million renovation is the most extensive in the museum’s history, restoring the main-floor galleries and opening the Frick family’s private quarters to the public for the first time. Works back on view include Rembrandt’s "Self-Portrait," Johannes Vermeer’s "Mistress and Maid," and Jean-François Millet’s "Woman Sewing by Lamplight." Visitors will also encounter works displayed in ways that mirror how they appeared when the Frick family lived there. To mark the reopening, sculptor Vladimir Kanevsky created porcelain floral arrangements echoing those displayed during the Frick’s 1935 debut.
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The Frick Collection reopens to the public on April 17, 2025 after a major renovation of its Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue, marking its return to the historic home for the first time in five years. The $220 million renovation is the most extensive in the museum’s history, restoring the main-floor galleries and opening the Frick family’s private quarters to the public for the first time. Works back on view include Rembrandt’s "Self-Portrait," Johannes Vermeer’s "Mistress and Maid," and Jean-François Millet’s "Woman Sewing by Lamplight." Visitors will also encounter works displayed in ways that mirror how they appeared when the Frick family lived there. To mark the reopening, sculptor Vladimir Kanevsky created porcelain floral arrangements echoing those displayed during the Frick’s 1935 debut.
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00:00We are now in the Grand Gallery, in the so-called West Gallery of the Frick Collection here in New York City on Fifth Avenue in the mansion that Henry Clay Frick, the great industrialist, built for himself, for his family, but also really for the collection.
00:20And I think that is a really important aspect. He already built that private home with an eye to become a museum later. And of course, you know, since 1935, it has been a public museum, has gone through various stages of expansion. And now with a project that we have recently completed, we're now really up to 21st century standards.
00:43In a way, you want them to feel at home. I mean, an aspirational home. But still, you know, the Frick is its character, really its main character, is the intimacy of the building, of the experience, the closeness to the works of art.
01:07You will notice we don't really work with stanchions and barrier rails and so forth. So you can really have a very close encounter with the art and derive all these sort of inspiration, imagination, joy, possibly also solace for some people, you know, from that.
01:22But, you know, it is that sort of, you know, very special character of the Frick that makes it unique and makes it rather special also in the hustle and bustle of New York City.
01:32It was indeed a labor of love and the entire project was possibly more like 10 years. It was also long in the preparation to think about how you, on the one hand, preserve the character of the historic building that is so beloved and at the same time also add modern aspects to it.
01:55Now, the big sort of thing is now that we've added or made the second floor accessible so that the former private living quarters of the Fricks are now also accessible to the public and we can show more collection up there.
02:09So that is a real acquisition as it were and you can now walk up the grand staircase to see that.
02:16The rooms that we are in right now is how most of it has always been.
02:31And certain hangs we really have, you know, taken the inspiration from, you know, how Mr. Frick had it on display.
02:40Some we have also brought back to how they were displayed in the past because, of course, now that the second floor spaces are available, for example, the breakfast room of a family is now also hung with the works, how the family had them in that space.
02:59And that, of course, we, no one has ever seen before, really, since this has been a museum.
03:04So in that sense, you know, there are some aspects that are also in terms of the presentation of a collection entirely new.