Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

    Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

    The painting’s frame is the “setting” that translates a two-dimensional idea into a three-dimensional world.
  • Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

    Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

    This summer the Museum partnered with Sharyse Porter, director of the health and wellness nonprofit Dawn of Hope, and Danielle Miller-Winrow, headmaster of Sprout U School of the Arts in Trenton, to pilot an intensive two-week academy for high school...
  • Handle with Care: Art Preparators at Work

    Handle with Care: Art Preparators at Work

    At the Museum, the preparators—Todd Baldwin, Chris Gorzelnik, Alan Lavery, and Justin Webb—are the people who move, frame, pack, mount, install, and deinstall the precious objects in the collections.
  • Using Art to Teach Engineering

    Using Art to Teach Engineering

    Penelope Georges, associate director of Princeton’s STEM Initiatives, Council on Science and Technology, and Veronica White, curator of teaching and learning, recently reflected on their work together teaching from the Museum’s collections
  • Art Matters by Alan Lo, Class of 2003
    Headshot of Alan Lo

    Art Matters by Alan Lo, Class of 2003

    While museums continue to be spaces that inspire and provide near spiritual encounters with art, I believe they can also test limits, trigger debate, and coax you out of your comfort zone.
  • Princeton University Art Museum Summer Academy
    A close up of watercolor paints and crayons in many colors

    Princeton University Art Museum Summer Academy

    Join us for a two-week program designed to offer high school students from Trenton Central and Ewing High Schools the opportunity to learn about careers in art museums and the visual arts while working with mentors, artists, and professionals from...
  • Major Stone Works Undergo Cleaning, Conservation

    Major Stone Works Undergo Cleaning, Conservation

    In 2020 and 2021, the removal of more than one hundred large-scale and embedded works from the old building was a particularly complicated task; installing these objects again in the new building will also be a massive undertaking. Since nearly...