Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Major New Sculpture Installed at Museum Entrance

    Major New Sculpture Installed at Museum Entrance

    The Museum’s front lawn has been home to a number of compelling works of art. Now the lawn is the site of a new commission designed especially for the site by Doug and Mike Starn.
  • Antioch through the Ages

    Antioch through the Ages

    Antioch-on-the-Orontes (modern Antakya, Turkey) was one of the great cities of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds and remained an important center through the Byzantine, Seljuk, Crusader, and Ottoman periods. From 1932 to 1939, an archaeological expedition to Antioch by a...
  • James Peale and The Battle of Princeton

    James Peale and The Battle of Princeton

    This unsigned work, The Battle of Princeton , was a gift of the legendary Princeton trustee Dean Mathey, Class of 1914, and is thought to be a collaborative effort. Read more
  • Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads

    Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads

    The Princeton University Art Museum installed 12 monumental sculptures— Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads— by the renowned contemporary Chinese artist, architectural designer, curator, and social activist Ai Weiwei.
  • New campus art commission adorns Whitman College

    New campus art commission adorns Whitman College

    In March 2014, Stardust , a six-panel jacquard tapestry handwoven by fabric artist Bhakti Ziek, was installed in Community Hall at Whitman College. This new video highlights Ziek's creative process.
  • Antioch mosaic restoration project
    Roman Mosaic pavement: Earth, mid 2nd century A.D. Stone h. 140.0 cm., w. 140.0 cm. (55 1/8 x 55 1/8 in.) Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University y1965-207

    Antioch mosaic restoration project

    Princeton's expeditions of the 1930s at the ancient city Antioch-on-the-Orontes, located near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey, unearthed archaeological treasures of one of the most important cultural and political centers of the Roman Empire.
  • Public Table by Scott Burton

    Public Table by Scott Burton

    Calling to mind the simplified geometric forms of Minimalism, Burton’s table, an inverted cone balancing on a wide circular base, offers students and passersby a place to socialize or study.
  • Campus Art Goes Mobile

    Campus Art Goes Mobile

    Campus Art at Princeton, a new website designed with mobile access in mind, brings attention to the durable art that people walk by every day.
  • Campus Collections: The Art around Us

    Campus Collections: The Art around Us

    Outside the walls of the museum building, the Museum oversees a collection of more than 700 works of art in different media that reflect the University’s rich history and aspirations. Many of these exceptional works need to be sought out—on...