Join us in transforming the Bruce Museum.

You can help us transform Fairfield County’s signature Art and Science Museum and the gateway to Greenwich, offering all of our visitors—from students and seniors, to children and families—the opportunity to encounter world-class art and unrivaled science exhibitions. 

The Museum and its collections, of more than 20,000 objects, are resources owned by the Town of Greenwich and held in trust for the people of Greenwich by a separate, privately funded 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Bruce Museum, Inc. The Museum receives financial support from the Town of Greenwich for select maintenance and facilities expenditures. Bruce Museum, Inc. is responsible for all other ongoing operational and administrative costs. The New Bruce construction, renovation, and endowment project will be financed by private, corporate, and foundation support secured through the campaign’s fundraising efforts.

Construction Progress

The New Bruce project—the first since a $4.3 million expansion in 1993–is already under way with expansion and improvements to the Museum’s parking lot completed in the fall of 2018. Phase two of construction began on September 9, 2019, with the renovation of the current changing gallery spaces, completed in January 2020. These enhancements were followed beginning in early 2020 of a complete renovation and reinvention of the permanent science galleries, which will occupy the existing building. Groundbreaking for the new Art Wing is scheduled for October 2020. The Museum will remain open for almost the entire construction project.

When complete, this unprecedented initiative will expand the Museum from 30,000 to 70,000 square feet, adding state-of-the-art exhibition galleries for art and science, new education spaces, and a restaurant, auditorium, and meeting spaces that will make the Museum a vibrant center for the tri-state community.

Construction Begins on the New Bruce

After several years of planning and an ongoing, community-wide fundraising effort, leaders of the Campaign for the New Bruce have announced that construction will begin in October on the centerpiece of the Bruce Museum’s expansion project: a three-story, 43,000-square-foot addition that will more than double the size of the Museum, adding state-of-the-art exhibition galleries for art and science and new education and community spaces, including a restaurant and an auditorium.

The new addition will feature the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Education Wing, as well as the William L. Richter Art Wing, including vastly expanded accommodations for changing art exhibitions and, for the first time, significant space to show the Museum’s permanent art collection in four new galleries. The entire ground floor - with a brand new store and tantalizing restaurant - ​ of the new addition will be free and open to the public during Museum operating hours and available for special-event use by local community groups, families, and businesses. 

“This is an incredibly exciting moment for Greenwich and its hometown Museum, and for the entire Fairfield-Westchester region,” says Robert Wolterstorff, The Susan E. Lynch Executive Director. “I know I speak for our family of staff, members, volunteers, and Trustees in expressing our profound gratitude to the community for their support.”

This milestone achievement will be celebrated with a live stream “shovel-in-the-ground” ceremony on Thursday, October 8, 2020, at 10:00 am on brucemuseum.org

Virtual Groundbreaking Ceremony for the New Bruce

Construction Begins on the New Bruce

Enjoy this brief video of highlights from the Groundbreaking ceremony on October 8.

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