The voyage of the Nomadic Museum began in New York in 2005, and later traveled to Santa Monica near Los Angeles in 2006. The site in Santa Monica was a parking lot with a short depth, unlike that of New York’s long pier site, and also new requirements to add a large theater and museum shop were requested. The original 200m long gallery was divided into two 100m lengths and placed in parallel with a new roof covering the newly created space. It was possible to create 50% more floor area with the newly requested functions, without increasing the number of containers. In Spring of 2007, the museum was transported to Tokyo where it took the same form as the Santa Monica museum.
