The Cleveland Museum of Art opened its new West Wing, completing a major phase of the museum's long renovation and expansion under architect Rafael Vinoly. The project replaced earlier additions, added new east and west wings, enclosed the atrium with a glass roof, and roughly doubled the museum's total size to 592,000 square feet. The West Wing was especially significant because it restored and re-presented parts of the museum's internationally respected Asian collections, including Chinese, Indian, and Southeast Asian art, in new galleries. The opening capped a multi-year reconfiguration of one of the United States' leading encyclopedic art museums.
The wing helped complete the museum's transformation into a larger, more coherent campus for its global collections.