See Inside The Frick’s New Home On The Upper East Side

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — It's not every day that a museum packs up its art and moves to a new location, but that's exactly what the Frick Collection has done on the Upper East Side as it prepares to open the doors of its temporary home on Madison Avenue.

On Thursday, Patch got a look inside the new Frick Madison, the 1960s-era building that formerly housed the Whitney Museum and later Met Breuer, and where Henry Clay Frick's renowned art collection will be on display while Frick's historic Fifth Avenue mansion is renovated.

Spread across three floors plus the lobby, the museum presents its familiar artworks in a startling new context: instead of Frick's extravagant mansion, with its green carpeting and chandeliered ceilings, works by Rembrandt and Renoir are hung on stark, gray walls beneath a gridded concrete ceiling.

Frick Madison opens to the public on March 18. Here's a look inside:

Unlike the old Frick, which scattered its works idiosyncratically around the mansion, the collection at Frick Madison is grouped chronologically and by region.

The museum also displays rarely-seen items from deep in the Frick's collection, including sixteenth-century Mughal carpets. Its thematic galleries are dedicated to French, Spanish, Italian, Northern European and British art, among others.

Downstairs from the main lobby, Joe Coffee has a stand selling "a light menu of refreshments and snacks" — plus outdoor seating.

Timed entry tickets are being sold online at $22 for adults, $17 for seniors, $12 for youth and students and free for members. Capacity will be limited to 25 percent.