Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Fall 2024 | Director’s Letter: The Role of the New Museum in Supporting Humanities

    Fall 2024 | Director’s Letter: The Role of the New Museum in Supporting Humanities

    Uniting excellence of scholarship with accessibility of presentation and engagement, the Museum is poised to be a gathering point for the scholar and the novice, each learning from the other in ways that are shaped by our future galleries, object...
  • Spring 2024 | Director's Letter: Rediscovering Old Friends in New Settings

    Spring 2024 | Director's Letter: Rediscovering Old Friends in New Settings

    All of this is a precursor to what awaits us in Princeton’s own galleries when they open next year. How exciting to rediscover old friends in new settings—in the company of equally familiar works or accompanied by chronologically or culturally...
  • Summer 2023 | Director’s Letter: The History of Exhibition as Inquiry

    Summer 2023 | Director’s Letter: The History of Exhibition as Inquiry

    Several exhibition ideas long in development—from monographic presentations of Minor White and Jean-Michel Basquiat to thematic exhibitions rethinking the place of women in nineteenth-century Victorian art or offering a fresh look at early Chinese painting—are candidates for presentation in the...
  • Winter 2023 | Director’s Letter: Fresh Eyes and Minds

    Winter 2023 | Director’s Letter: Fresh Eyes and Minds

    Fresh eyes and minds are posing new questions that can lead us to discover that a beloved object isn’t quite what we thought it was, or equally that an object long relegated to storage is actually exemplary of its type...
  • Fall 2022 | Director’s Letter: Making and Remaking the Museum

    Fall 2022 | Director’s Letter: Making and Remaking the Museum

    The act of making a new museum at the heart of the nation’s fourth-oldest university is deeply important—a reaffirmation that a museum of objects and ideas can play a profound role in the University’s commitment to a liberal arts education.
  • Summer 2022 | Director’s Letter: Renewal

    Summer 2022 | Director’s Letter: Renewal

    Seeing the campus in a fresh light reminded me of how vivid the pleasures of rediscovering this beautiful place will be for so many alumni and other friends who have been away so long—and how vivid the surprise of seeing...