The Yale University Art Gallery, in Connecticut, US, has reopened its doors this week following a US$135m (103.44m euro, £83.75m) expansion.

The refurbished gallery occupies three buildings, expanding floor space to 21,328 sq m from 12,273 sq m, and houses African, Asian, Indo-Pacific, ancient American, European and contemporary art.

The museum's collection is more than 185,000 works strong and includes Vincent van Gogh's Night Café (1888), Marcel Duchamp's Tu m' (1918) and Henry Moore's Draped Seated Woman (1957-58).

New York City's Ennead Architects faced the challenge of creating cohesion between the gallery's three distinct buildings; a modernist structure by Louis Kahn, the Old Yale Art Gallery designed by Egerton Swartwout in 1928 and Street Hall designed by Peter Bonnett Wight in 1866.

Yale University Art Gallery is the oldest university art museum in the US, founded in 1832, and offers the largest collection of free art in the country outside Washington DC.

Image: Elizabeth Felicella / Yale University Art Gallery