LINCOLN, Neb., April 19 (UPI) -- Ground will be broken next spring for the nation's first quilt museum and international center for study of quilting at the University of Nebraska.
A spokesman for the university said Robert Stern, a prominent New York architect, was selected over Daniel Liebeskind of New York and Kisho Kurokawa of Tokyo in an architectural competition for the design of the $10.5 million museum. The building will contain facilities for the study, preservation, and display of quilts.
Stern has designed a three-story, 30,000-square-foot structure faced with limestone and featuring a bowed facade of glass panels that will appear to have been stitched together to create a large-scale pattern.
The museum's collection contains both American quilts and examples of quilting from a number of other nations.
