Curatorial Areas

With a collecting history that extends back to the 1750s, the Museum is one of the few university art museums of truly universal scope. Its collections, which number more than 115,000 works in all media, range from ancient to contemporary and span the globe.

Many of these works may be accessed through the Online Collections Catalogue. In the interest of providing access to the greatest number of works, not all data has been approved by a curator, and information about the artworks may change as the result of ongoing research. Objects will be added to the Online Catalogue as cataloguing is completed and images become available.

Please contact the Collections Information office with any inquiries or comments about your Online Database experience.

Image Use and Access  

Image Use and Access  

Collecting and Provenance Research

Collecting and Provenance Research

Collection Stories

Story Archive

From Ownership to Stewardship

From Ownership to Stewardship

The Princeton University Art Museum hired its first curator of provenance, MaryKate Cleary, last summer. In September 2024 she served as the moderator of a panel discussion that brought together Princeton curators and provenance specialists from major museums—an event intended...
Recent Acquisition | A Major Acquisition of African Modernism

Recent Acquisition | A Major Acquisition of African Modernism

Ibrahim El-Salahi is one of Africa’s most celebrated postcolonial modernist artists, known for his contributions to calligraphic modernism. The Museum has recently acquired one of his paintings.