Tampa Museum of Art expansion begins with new dog park downtown

A new dog park coming to downtown Tampa will herald the first visible steps in the Tampa Museum of Art’s highly anticipated expansion.

This month, construction crews will begin relocating the Tampa Dog Run at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park to make way for the museum to more than triple its existing footprint, according to a statement, It’s the first physical transformation to come from the museum’s Centennial Capital Campaign for expansion, an effort launched in 2020 to celebrate the institution’s 100th anniversary.

“This marks an important milestone in our Centennial Expansion,” Michael Tomor, the Penny and Jeff Vinik Executive Director at the Tampa Museum of Art, says in the statement from the museum. “It opens the way for the physical groundwork to begin for inviting spaces that reflect our city’s interest in the arts and support meaningful cultural experiences.”