The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena began as the Pasadena Art Museum, a building completed in 1969 and designed by Thornton Ladd and John Kelsey of Ladd & Kelsey. The text gives no construction start date. Frank Gehry led a renovation that began in 1995 at about $5 million, and Power and Associates redesigned the gardens.
The article describes a modern, curvilinear facade clad in 115,000 glazed tiles in brown tones, made by Edith Heath. It names no building dimensions. Norton Simon's 1974 agreement gave him 75 percent of the gallery space for his collection, and the museum was established on March 1, 1975.
Collection counts conflict, with about 12,500 objects in the infobox and more than 11,000 in the text. It shows European, Asian and modern works, and the Norton Simon Theater hosts film and lectures. The article gives no hours.
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