Sleek Entrance for El Museo del Barrio. New York City

“It is somehow fitting that El Museo del Barrio has made its home for the last 28 years in a former orphanage on Fifth Avenue in East Harlem. When the museum was founded in the neighborhood in 1969 by a group of artists, teachers and political organizers, its mission was to serve as a home for Puerto Rican art, a cultural orphan in the mainstream museum world in New York.

But the building where El Museo moved in 1977, the massive city-owned Heckscher Foundation Building, has long contributed to a kind of identity problem for the museum. The building is shared with several other organizations, including the City Parks Department and a school with hundreds of students. So when a visitor enters the building, past the bright street banners trumpeting the museum, it is not always easy to figure out where to go once inside….”

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