Story Archive

Translating Object-Based Learning into Virtual Discussions

Translating Object-Based Learning into Virtual Discussions

When we all learned that University teaching was moving online, we quickly began exploring virtual formats that could most closely re-create the experience of discussing objects in person. A huge team effort led by the Museum’s communication and information department...
Art Matters by Eve Aschheim, Lecturer in Visual Arts

Art Matters by Eve Aschheim, Lecturer in Visual Arts

Artworks come to life when we see them freshly, beyond the received conventions. As a faculty member, I’ve been fortunate to experience the Museum at close range.
Faculty Voices | Reflections: Illness of Time

Faculty Voices | Reflections: Illness of Time

Roaming through the luminously assembled States of Health , we faced the specter of death, scientific unknowns, and social tissues gone awry. And we learned that belonging to the kingdom of well-being is certainly not equally distributed.
Art Matters by Robbie LeDesma, PhD candidate, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Art Matters by Robbie LeDesma, PhD candidate, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

After beginning my graduate studies at Princeton, I fell in love with the Art Museum’s collections, often spending my lunch breaks and free time wandering the galleries and attending the Museum’s educational lectures and programs. These events fostered a growing...
Rethinking Assumptions through Museum Teaching

Rethinking Assumptions through Museum Teaching

Sometimes, or even ideally, a University class visit to the Art Museum is designed not to illustrate course material but rather to upend it, the encounter with works of art productively undoing assumptions and unsettling students’ well-worn ways of engaging...
Art Matters by Abbie Vandivere, Class of 2001

Art Matters by Abbie Vandivere, Class of 2001

I graduated in 2001 knowing that I wanted to pursue conservation, but first I wanted to gain experience working in a museum. I worked in different areas of the Art Museum: Prints and Drawings, the Museum Store, preparation and art...
Increasing Equity in Art Museums

Increasing Equity in Art Museums

This summer the Art Museum was pleased to serve as an externship site for the Newark Museum’s internship program formed through the Diversifying Art Museums Leadership Initiative (DAMLI). The aim of the DAMLI, funded by the Ford Foundation and the...
2019 Summer Interns

2019 Summer Interns

Meet the Museum's 2019 Summer Interns! This year's class includes students representing hometowns ranging from Beijing to Brasilia to Basking Ridge. The interns are assigned to departments across the Museum, where they work alongside staff on projects advancing our core...
Art Matters by Louise S. Sams, Class of 1979

Art Matters by Louise S. Sams, Class of 1979

I have found art museums to be welcoming places, a home away from home, a quiet sanctuary of introspection and learning, albeit shared with others. Regardless of the circumstances, I have found comfort and stimulation in museums and a kinship...
Michael Graves and the Art of Drawing

Michael Graves and the Art of Drawing

The Art Museum has recently acquired an extraordinary group of drawings by the renowned American architect and designer Michael Graves (1934–2015). The nearly five thousand works, which come to the Museum from Graves’s estate, span the entire range of his...