About the Museum
The primary mission of the Princeton University Art Museum is to effectively support and enhance the university’s goals of teaching, research, and service. The Museum does this through the study, preservation, conservation, exhibition, and development of its collections. Through direct and sustained access to original works of art, and by collaborating with faculty, students, and staff from the Department of Art and Archaeology and many other disciplines, the Museum contributes to the development of critical thinking and visual literacy at Princeton.
As one of the richest cultural resources in the state of New Jersey, the Museum also has a clear commitment to serve the local community, the region, and beyond. The Museum encourages the public to benefit from its collections and exhibitions and to provide support for its principal activities through specific programs and outreach initiatives. Scholarly exhibitions, publications, symposia, and an active loan program extend the Museum’s reach to a national and international audience, assuring its continuing vitality and its active participation in the university's primary commitment to advance and impart knowledge.
The Princeton University Art Museum is grateful to its generous supporters for helping to make possible its broad range of exhibitions, programs, and publications. In addition to specific funding mentioned elsewhere, major support for exhibitions and educational activities is provided, in part, by the Apparatus Fund; the John B. Elliott, Class of 1951, Fund for Asian Art; the Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, Fund for the International Artist in Residence Program; the Judith and Anthony B. Evnin, Class of 1962, Exhibition Fund; the Frances E. and Elias Wolf, Class of 1920, Fund; the Hans A. Widenmann, Class of 1918, and Dorothy Widenmann Fund; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; the Joseph L. Shulman Foundation Fund for Art Museum Publications; the Mildred Clarke Pressinger von Kienbusch Memorial Fund; the Mary Pitcairn Keating Friends Annual Lecture Fund; the Mercer Trust; the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Program Fund for American Art; the Virginia and Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Program Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art; the Docent Education Fund; the Friends Education Program Fund; and the Friends and Partners of the Princeton University Art Museum. The Museum’s summer internship program is supported by the Hilla Von Rebay Foundation and the Frelinghuysen Foundation. We thank these funders and all of the countless individuals whose annual contributions enable the Museum to effectively support and enhance Princeton’s core mission of teaching, research, and service.
Related Links
American Association of Museums
Association of Art Museum Directors
College Art Association
