Buffalo AKG Art Museum by the numbers

Buffalo AKG Art Museum by the numbers

It cost $195 million and took 42 months to build and renovate the Buffalo AKG Art Museum at 1285 Elmwood Ave. The museum has 50,000 square feet of gallery space, 430 pieces of art on exhibit and 80 underground parking spaces.

Here are numbers that help define the museumโ€™s new Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building.

Tons of steel needed: 250

Cubic yards of concrete poured in 8-hour period: 1,500

Number of glass panels: 540

Weight of heaviest of nine custom air handlers

in sub-basement: 40,000 pounds

Amount of prime gallery space: 30,000 square feet

Largest gallery: 7,530 square feet

Smallest gallery: 861 square feet

Clyfford Still paintings on exhibit: 33

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