The Dayton Art Institute's Experiencenter By Shayna V. McConville Nestled under the marble
rotunda staircase of the Dayton Art Institute is the Experiencenter, the nation's first interactive family gallery in an art museum, established in 1976.
Not exact matches
Structural changes include (but are not limited to) addition of glazed doors and windows to the entry space by artist Richard Wright, an incredible spiral
staircase set into the main
rotunda, and a new café in the basement that spills over onto the front of the building.
Its centrepiece will be a new
staircase descending from the museum's entrance
rotunda into the basement that, with decorative scalloped patterns on its floor and balustrades, has a style hovering somewhere in the 116 years since the Tate's original building was built.
The overall restraint of the interventions gives us only one wow moment: a new circular
staircase in the
Rotunda, scalloped with art deco patterns.
Originally built in 1939, the 19,773 - square - foot Georgian Colonial - style main house and guesthouse have eight bedrooms, 13 baths, a three - story
rotunda foyer with double grand
staircase, formal rooms overlooking the pool, grounds and Long Island Sound, a home theater, a putting green, multiple terraces and patios, tennis courts and three fully - equipped staff apartments.
The
rotunda entry is graced by a majestic chandelier leading to a dramatic
staircase.