The Tacoma Art Museum at 1701 Pacific Avenue moved into a building by Antoine Predock in May 2003. The article describes a 50,000-square-foot (4,650 m2) steel and glass structure and says Predock drew on the region's light and water, Mount Rainier and the Thea Foss Waterway. It names no client or style.
Olson Kundig Architects designed an expansion of about 16,000 square feet (1,500 m2), completed in November 2014. It houses the Haub Family Collection of Western American Art.
Richard Rhodes's sculpture Untitled - Stone Wave occupies the central court, and Dale Chihuly's glass is on permanent display. The museum was founded in 1935 and holds more than 5,400 pieces, about two-thirds of them Northwest art. Its employees formed a union in 2023. The article gives no hours.
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