Upon opening in 1974, Greenville County’s Museum of Art became the fi rst public museum constructed in South Carolina in over a century. In the years leading up to its design, CGD developed a master plan for Heritage Green, a cultural campus that included provisions for a theatre and library. The Museum site was limited, and the resulting keystone-shape plan fi ts comfortably between the other structures. The key challenge was integrating the museum and art school functions while separating public circulation from service and staging areas. 

• Phase I included exhibition space, gift shop, offices, exhibit preparation rooms and storage for the Museum’s permanent collection 
• A 75 seat cafe with kitchen
• A 175 seat lecture auditorium and film theater
• Phase II, the Art School, included classrooms and laboratories for drawing, printmaking, pottery, metalwork, photography and other media