Think you have seen all there is to see at the new Whitney Museum? We wrap up our special coverage of the new museum opening with a look at some of the ideas and programs that define the new space. NY1 Arts and Culture reporter Stephanie Simon filed the following report.

In my many trips to the Whitney Museum in the weeks leading up to opening, I found that some of its most fascinating features - beyond the art or architecture - are the ideas.

One of those ideas is opening up the museum so you can see art from all around, including Jonathan Borofsky's “Running Man.“

"It brings art beyond actually the limit of the museum and into the world itself," says Donna DeSalvo, chief curator at The Whitney Museum of American Art.

There is so much great artwork on display. Even in the stairwell, you can find a piece by Felix Gonzalez Torres. It starts in the lobby, comes all the way up to the fifth floor.

The art seems to be everywhere. Even the Conservation Department looks like a gallery.

"It was very important that the floors have the same feel as the galleries, that the light that reflects off the floors is very similar. So when we’re color matching or we’re looking at a work of art or working on it here, it’s really important to us to know that that same match, that same feeling will be conveyed when it’s hung on the walls," says Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, associate director of Conservation and Research.

"We wanted when people come into the building the first thing you see is artwork so when you walk in the front door there are four elevators and each elevator is an artwork,"  says Adam Weinberg, director of The Whitney Museum of American Art.

The museum's welcoming feel does not end with the aesthetics. It has researched what people in the neighborhood want from a museum.

"For example, this neighborhood has historically been very important to the city’s LGBTQ community, and so we’re now partnered with organizations like the LGBT Community Center, Fierce, The Door -where we’re welcoming in LGBTQ young people through educational partnerships and really making the museum a resource,” says Danielle Linzer, director of access and community programs.

One of the things that the Whitney has heard is that people are interested in seeing artwork that speaks to the history of the neighborhood, like the piece by Hedda Sterne called “New York, New York.”

Sometimes the beauty is in the art and sometime it is in the mission.