Project Description: This project will comprehensively renovate and modernize the McKissick Museum to accommodate multiple classrooms, student study areas, a café, and a reimagined Welcome Center with a modernized Visitors Center, consolidated space for Admissions counselors and Orientation staff, and a two-story student entrance lobby. The McKissick Collection will be exhibited throughout the building on walls and in display cases.
Phase: Design / Preconstruction
Project Update as of Oct. 2026:
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The McKissick Collection has been relocated to the Senate Street Archives Building.
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Admissions and Visitors Center staff have been relocated.
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Visitors Center theaters have been temporarily relocated to the first floor of the Byrnes Building.
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The contractor will mobilize onsite and begin interior abatement and demolition in early November 2026.
Anticipated Construction: November 2026 to Fall 2028.