Renovated Frick to Reopen in April 2025

The Frick Collection, which relocated temporarily to the Breuer Building on Madison Avenue during a major renovation of its historic Fifth Avenue mansion, will reopen in April 2025, the museum announced on Wednesday.

“The whole house will come together in the public’s mind in a way it never did,” said Ian Wardropper, 73, who is stepping down next spring after 14 years as director.

The renovation — designed by Selldorf Architects with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners as executive architect — has reinstalled masterworks in new and restored spaces on the first floor and a new suite of galleries on the mansion’s previously private second floor, which will open to the public for the first time.

“People are going to love being able to go upstairs and see the family rooms,” Wardropper said.

(Axel Rüger, the secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, was announced as Wardropper’s successor in September.)

The renovation prompted protest from some preservationists who objected to initial plans — since revised — to remove the museum’s gated garden and later objected to the elimination of its 149-seat oval music room. (That room has been replaced by the 220-seat Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium.)