Choose Your Wing
Gil Elvgren
The Department Store
Glossy gouache scenes, tilted from above: a five-story 1950s department store that never existed, hung with 25 plates. Its Noir floor opens after closing, one light on.
25 plates · 3 rooms
Alberto Vargas
The Grand Hotel
Watercolor-and-airbrush elegance throughout the Hotel Marlowe. Gloves, room keys, chandeliers: 26 plates of 1940s glamour. At midnight the lights dim, but nobody sleeps.
26 plates · 3 rooms
Melissa Launay
The Starlite Motor Court
Rockabilly vixens in saturated cherry-red, teal and cream: 26 plates of milkshakes, convertibles and neon at the Starlite Motor Court. After midnight the neon burns alone.
26 plates · 3 rooms
Plan Your Visit
How the museum reads
Each wing has three rooms: the main Gallery, an Expansion of the upper floors, and a Noir room. The Noir room is the same building after closing, one light on.
Motion panels
Every plate hangs beside a small looping video panel. The paintings glance and sway on their own; there is nothing to hover.
The Master Plates
The Elvgren wing also offers Master Plates, the full-resolution scans of its expansion floor. The other wings are shown at gallery resolution only.