Copy The Children’s Museum of Manhattan has announced that it will renovate an abandoned church off of Central Park in New York City. Designed by architecture firm FXCollaborative and design studio Local Projects, the new museum building enables CMOM to meet increased demand for its program and resources, and marks CMOM’s first expansion in over 40 years. The project aims to engage and inspire New York City’s youngest citizens. Courtesy of FXCollaborative The new project at 361 Central Park West will restore the land-marked church originally designed by Carrère and Hastings. Marking the first time CMOM will be expanding in forty years, the new building enables the museum to meet increasing public demand for its programs and triples its existing programmatic space, with approximately 41,300 feet dedicated to exhibitions and programs. Along with the American Museum of Natural History and New-York Historical Society, the new museum hopes to anchor an extended “museum mile” on Manhattan’s West Side.