ICA Miami Adds Eight Galleries in Design District
The renovated 30,000-square-foot building at 23 Northeast 41st Street is slated for completion in late 2027.
Updated on Nov. 5, 2026 in Fine Art
Miami's contemporary art scene is getting a bigger home: ICA Miami is converting a former private museum building in the Miami Design District into a second venue, adding eight galleries and public programming space on the same block as its flagship.
Why it matters
For Miami art lovers, this is ICA Miami doubling its footprint in the Design District rather than moving elsewhere, a sign the neighborhood's cultural draw is still growing. It also means a building that spent decades as a private collection becomes open public space.
ICA Miami paid $25 million for the building in 2024 and is renovating roughly 30,000 square feet with eight galleries. The Knight Foundation contributed $5 million, while the total project budget and final opening schedule remain unstated and the late-2027 completion is a projection.
The players
ICA Miami
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, a nonprofit contemporary art museum expanding into a second building in the Design District.
Gensler
The architecture firm renovating the former de la Cruz museum building for ICA Miami.
Knight Foundation
The foundation that donated $5 million to the second-building project.
The details
Gensler is renovating the existing museum building at 23 Northeast 41st Street, leaving much of the structure intact while reworking the facade and lobby. The second building will hold eight galleries, four on each of the first two floors, and the third floor will host public programming, screenings, events and lectures. The building previously housed the Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz collection as a private museum from 2000 to 2024. The project is slated for completion in late 2027.
Timeline
2000 to 2024: the building operates as a private museum for the de la Cruz collection.
2014: ICA Miami is founded.
2017: ICA Miami's flagship opens, designed by Aranguren + Gallegos Arquitectos.
2024: ICA Miami acquires the building for $25 million.
Late 2027: the renovated second building is slated for completion.
Beyond the 305
The new building extends ICA Miami's 2017 flagship, designed by Aranguren + Gallegos Arquitectos, onto the same block at 23 Northeast 41st Street. It turns a block that already housed one museum into a two-building campus.
Residents and visitors who already walk the Design District will soon find eight more galleries and a public programming floor on the same block as ICA's flagship. Expect the new space to host screenings, lectures and events once it opens around late 2027.
The takeaway
ICA Miami is turning a long-private collection building into open public space, a useful thing to know if you follow the Design District's cultural growth. Watch for the late-2027 opening date and the eight new galleries it will bring to the block.
What happens next
The renovated building is slated for completion in late 2027, the date to watch for the second ICA Miami galleries and third-floor programming to open.
Further reading
For more on the city's gallery and museum scene, explore Fine Art coverage in Miami.
