Updating an Icon: Renovating and Enhancing The Frick Collection

Go behind the scenes of The Frick Collection’s award-winning renovation and enhancement, completed in 2025. This video provides a comprehensive look at the careful planning and extensive work that went into the project—the institution’s first major upgrade in ninety years—which enables the Frick to better serve a twenty-first-century audience.

Ian Wardropper, Director Emeritus, and fellow Frick staff join Annabelle Selldorf, Principal of Selldorf Architects, and Richard Southwick, Partner Emeritus of Beyer Blinder Belle, to walk through every dimension of this historic undertaking.

Learn about the evolution of the Frick’s home, the critical needs for infrastructural and programmatic updates, and the elegant design solutions conceived to address these needs—all implemented with sensitivity to the character of the Frick’s historic buildings and gardens. Highlights include the addition of state-of-the-art amenities that improve the visitor experience, new galleries on the museum’s second floor, and the meticulous restoration of existing spaces.

Read more about the renovation and enhancement project. 
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Video by SandenWolff and The Frick Collection
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