Ground will be broken this morning for the new visitor center at the George Eastman Museum.
Planners say it will be a more convenient, visible, welcoming and accessible main entrance to the museum.
Plans call for a new steel-and-glass entrance pavilion next to the Dryden Theatre.
It will include a renovated education and meeting hall, a new cafe’, and expanded restrooms.
It’s being funded with a $1 million state grant; a $1.5 million private donation and the $1 million sale of the naming rights to ESL Federal Credit Union.
Museum officials call it the most significant structural change at the museum since the gallery and collections building was constructed 30 years ago.