The Andy Warhol Museum

Plans for the museum were announced in October 1989,{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/03/arts/to-get-his-museum-opening-in-92.html?pagewanted=all |title=To Get His Museum, Opening in '92 | date=October 3, 1989 |work=The New York Times| access-date=2009-08-25 | first=Grace | last=Glueck}} about 2½ years after Warhol's death. At the time of the announcement, works worth an estimated $80 million were donated to the newly announced museum by the AWFVA and the Dia Art Foundation. Thomas N. Armstrong III, who had been the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1974 to 1990, was named the museum's first director in 1993.{{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/06/arts/director-of-warhol-museum-is-chosen.html | title= Director Of Warhol Museum Is Chosen | date=January 6, 1993 | work=The New York Times | access-date=2009-08-25 | first=Carol | last=Vogel}} Matt Wrbican joined the staff of the museum before it opened, inventorying Warhol's belongings in New York, and has become the archivist and an expert on Warhol's work.{{cite web|url=http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmp/cmag/article.php?id=74|author=Julie Hannon|title=Face Time: Matt Wrbican|publisher=Carnegie Magazine|date=Spring 2008|access-date=4 August 2016}}

By 1993, the {{convert|88000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} industrial warehouse and its extensive renovations had cost about $12 million, and the AWFVA had donated more than 1,000 of Warhol's works worth over $55 million, a donation that grew to about 3,000 works.{{cite news| title=Warhol Museum Head Announces Resignation | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/07/arts/warhol-museum-head-announces-resignation.html |date=February 7, 1995 | work=The New York Times | access-date=2009-08-25 | first=Carol | last=Vogel}}

On May 13–14, 1994, the museum attracted about 25,000 visitors to its opening weekend. Armstrong, its founding director, resigned nine months after its opening; at the time of his resignation, the museum had had "tense relations" with the AWFVA and the Carnegie Institute, its financial backer, though The New York Times could find no one involved who would say whether that friction played a role in Armstrong's resignation.

On November 1, 1997, the AWFVA donated all Warhol film and video copyrights to the museum.{{cite web| url = http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2014/05/11/A-timeline-of-the-Warhol/stories/201405110061| title = A timeline of The Warhol {{!}} Pittsburgh Post-Gazette}}

In 2013, it was announced that in Manhattan, New York City, in the Essex Crossing development on the Lower East Side, an annex to the main Pittsburgh museum was scheduled to open by 2017.{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/essex-crossing-lower-east-side-photos_n_3949082.html | title=Essex Crossing Development Plans Set To Change Lower East Side, Will Cost $1.1 Billion (IMAGES) | work=Huffington Post | date=18 September 2013 | access-date=30 July 2014}}{{cite web | url=http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/pittsburghs-andy-warhol-museum-is-expanding-to-new-york-22879 | title=Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum Is Expanding to New York | work=Artnet | date=19 May 2014 | access-date=30 July 2014 | author=Cascone, Sarah}}{{cite web | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2014/05/17/Plans-for-Warhol-Museum-branch-in-NYC-move-ahead/stories/201405170178 | title=Plans for Warhol Museum branch in NYC move ahead | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=17 May 2014 | access-date=30 July 2014 | author=Marylynne Pitz}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2014/05/andy-warhol-annex-at-essex-crossing-developers-picking-up-the-bill.html |title=Andy Warhol Annex at Essex Crossing: Developers Picking Up the Bill |publisher=The Lodown NY |date=2014-05-19 |access-date=2014-07-23}}

{{cite web | url=http://www.complex.com/style/2014/05/a-branch-of-the-andy-warhol-museum-will-open-in-new-yorks-lower-east-side-in-2017 | title=A Branch of the Andy Warhol Museum Will Open in New York's Lower East Side in 2017 | work=Complex | date=19 May 2014 | access-date=30 July 2014 | author=Cheng, Susan}} However, the museum announced in March 2015 that it had dropped its plans to open the New York annex.{{cite web | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2015/03/21/Warhol-drops-NYC-plan/stories/201503210101 | title=Warhol Museum drops plan of opening branch in New York | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=21 March 2015 | access-date=25 March 2015}}

In October 2019, an audio tape of publicly unknown music by Lou Reed, based on Warhol's 1975 book, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, was reported to have been discovered in an archive at the museum in Pittsburgh.{{cite news |last=Sisaro |first=Ben |title=A Long-Lost Lou Reed Tape With a Surprise: Andy Warhol Lyrics - The cassette, discovered at the Andy Warhol Museum, finds the Velvet Underground musician performing snippets from his mentor's 1975 book. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/arts/music/lou-reed-andy-warhol-tape.html |date=October 30, 2019 |work=The New York Times |access-date=October 30, 2019 }}

In 2022, the museum announced a $60 million expansion deemed The 'Pop District' covering six blocks in Pittsburgh, PA. The expansion looks to build a music venue, a social media studio called Warhol Creative, and expand places for public art exhibits.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/arts/design/andy-warhol-museum-pop-district.html|title=Warhol Museum Reimagines the Factory in a New 'Pop District'|last=Moynihan|first=Colin|date=20 May 2022|website=The New York Times|access-date=14 October 2022}} The proposed site would be around 58,000 square feet (17,500 square meters), including a first-floor concert venue with standing room for up to 1,000 people, a second-floor mezzanine, and an events space that could hold up to 360 people on the fourth floor. The third floor would be used for offices and support spaces.[https://apnews.com/article/warhol-museum-pittsburgh-pop-district-concert-venue-39fa49038cfa441717fc352ab57bc616 Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh plans to expand with a $45 million event venue] Associated Press, 18 October 2023. The project is expected to take ten years and is funded primarily through local foundations.{{cite web|url=https://triblive.com/aande/museums/andy-warhol-museum-announces-60-million-expansion-on-north-side/|title=Andy Warhol Museum plans $60 million expansion on North Side|last=Guggenheimer|first=Paul|date=20 May 2022|website=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review|access-date=14 October 2022}}

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• The 2010 film She's Out of My League filmed a key scene at the museum during an evening event. The film's subject was hosting the event.
• The Andy Warhol Diaries (TV series) in 2022 prominently featured museum staff as narrators of Warhol's life.{{cite web|url=https://time.com/6155980/andy-warhol-diaries-review-netflix/|title=Will We Ever Really Know Who Andy Warhol Was? A New Docuseries Digs Into His Private Life|last=Berman|first=Judy Berman|date=9 March 2022|website=Time Magazine|access-date=14 October 2022}}

• List of single-artist museums
• Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, Medzilaborce, Slovakia

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