Story Archive

Story Archive

  • 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...
  • The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century

    The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century

    Feasting was an important social and ritual activity in China from the Bronze Age through the imperial period and retains a strong cultural significance to this day. The Eternal Feast illuminates the impact of the culture of feasting on China...
  • Exhibition | States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing

    Exhibition | States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing

    States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing draws on the Princeton University Art Museum’s collections, as well as the holdings of Firestone Library, to address and frame questions of illness, suffering, care, and healing as expressed in the global visual...
  • 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...
  • State-of-the-Art Technology

    State-of-the-Art Technology

    As part of the Museum’s continuing efforts to study and preserve works of art, Conservator Bart Devolder recently acquired two new tools for the examination and documentation of surfaces under high magnification. ​​​​​​ We look forward to sharing future discoveries...
  • 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...
  • Exhibition | Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection

    Exhibition | Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection

    This summer the Art Museum celebrates the life and career of one of its most renowned curators in Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection . The exhibition will feature a group of artworks and artifacts from among the...