Scenes from the Work Site
Construction continues at the Addison and its new addition at a feverish pace, so much so that we are unable to cover everything on our website with our weekly image post. So, to bring our readers up to date, here are some additional "scenes" from the work site. Click the images to make them larger.

The Addison in your neighborhood
The Addison may still be closed for renovation, and our touring exhibition Coming of Age may have concluded, but selections from the Addison's collection can still be seen hanging on the walls of various museums across the country as we continue to lend our objects to other institutions' exhibitions.Two of our Winslow Homers, Shepherdess (see left) and

The Museum Project
- What is a collection? What kinds of things do people collect – and why?- What does a museum collect?- Why are museums important?Throughout the school year, the Addison’s Education Department will be working with the Kindergarten Prep class at the Children’s

Update on the Addison Expansion and Renovation
I had the privilege to walk through the museum and work site (see left, click images to make them larger) recently and found myself stunned and amazed at how much progress had been made in the Addison's renovation and expansion.

Coming of Age – Coming Home to Andover
Posted by Brian T. Allen, The Mary Stripp & R. Crosby Kemper DirectorWith the Addison construction project nearing its close, so, too, is the Addison’s traveling exhibition, Coming of Age, which features seventy of our greatest paintings and sculptures. The show’s “grand tour” began at the Addison in the fall of 2006 and subsequently traveled to the Meadows Museum in Dallas, the Dulwich Picture Gallery