Downtown Riverside’s Cheech Marin art museum is 75% complete - Press-Enterprise

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The transformation of Riverside’s former downtown library into a museum featuring the art collection of comedian Cheech Marin is well on its way.

Tucker May, senior superintendent of Hamel Contracting in Murrieta, said that as of Thursday, Nov. 4, the project was about 75% complete.

• Workers walk through the lobby of Riverside’s former downtown library Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. Construction is underway for The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, which is set to open in May 2022. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• Construction continues Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, at the future Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in downtown Riverside. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• Tucker May, senior superintendent of Hamel Contracting, walks through a future second-floor gallery Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, as construction continues at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• Workers have restored the original polyester panels found along the staircase, built in the 1960s, at the former downtown Riverside library. Construction continues Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, on The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• Tucker May, senior superintendent of Hamel Contracting, right, and Dakota Parada, assistant superintendent, survey construction progress Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, outside the future Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in downtown Riverside. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• Tucker May, senior superintendent of Hamel Contracting, surveys construction progress Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, at the future Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in downtown Riverside. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• A view of the lobby is seen Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, from the second floor of the future Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum is taking shape inside the former downtown Riverside library Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• Tucker May, senior superintendent of Hamel Contracting, right, and Dakota Parada, assistant superintendent, walk through the lobby of Riverside’s former downtown library Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• A worker takes a measurement above a set of stairs Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, as construction continues at the future Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in downtown Riverside. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• Workers have restored the original polyester panels along the staircase, built in the 1960s, in Riverside’s former downtown library, seen Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• Works is done on the stairs of Riverside’s former downtown library Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, as construction continues on The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

• A worker walks through the lobby of the future Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in downtown Riverside on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. The museum is set to open in May 2022. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

The Riverside City Council voted in January to hire Hamel Contracting to do the renovation at a cost of up to $10.7 million. The Riverside Art Museum committed to covering the expense.

“We’re just jazzed about the progress,” Riverside Art Museum Executive Director Drew Oberjuerge said.

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, as it will be called, is on schedule to open May 8, she said. The center is being built to display the wide variety of art collected by Marin of Cheech & Chong fame, the counterculture comedy duo who made many laugh during the 1970s.

The city’s new main library opened in June, a few blocks away.

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