Palette Cleanser: A new campus museum quietly serves up a visual banquet
…eter. A grand staircase with deep treads subtly tapers up to the galleries. All the mundane functions—the lobby, administrative offices, a resource center, and bathrooms—are on the ground floor, saving the upper floor for just enjoying art. The wall along the stair continues beyond floor level to form a balustrade for the second-floor galleries and is covered with a gray finish, to add a quiet variation to the otherwise white space. The museum di…