Featuring work by emerging and mid-career contemporary artists, The Aldrich is a non-collecting art museum. Founded in 1964 by Larry Aldrich in a suburban Connecticut town, the museum underwent extensive renovations and expansion in 2003. It reopened in 2004 with doubled exhibition space, sporting a the name The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. With 12 galleries total, the building houses a screening room, a sound gallery, a 22-foot-high project space, a 100-seat performance area and an two-acre outdoor sculpture garden.