Trials For SF Jewish Museum

Facing fundraising obstacles and internal disagreements, San Francisco’s Jewish Museum is looking at scaling back a design for a dramatic Daniel Libeskind museum. “We had become too ambitious in our planning for the new museum. The idea was to expose Jewish culture and thought to a wider public in ‘an architectural gem’ in the heart of the city’s cultural district. Now we’re thinking about a smaller building with a smaller operating budget. How that smaller building will look, I don’t know. It’s unlikely that it will be the Libeskind design as we know it.”