The Museum's main building is closed for construction of a new museum in the same location, slated to open in Spring 2025.
In the meantime, two satellite galleries are open a short walk away, at 11 Hulfish Street and at the historic Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau Street in downtown Princeton.
Art on Hulfish gallery will showcase a roster of exhibitions led by photography that consider questions and themes of significance to 21st-century life. Presenting four exhibitions each year, Art on Hulfish is free and open seven days a week.
Art@Bainbridge highlights contemporary American art. The gallery is closed on Mondays.
With a collecting history that extends back to the 1750s, the Museum is one of the oldest collecting institutions in America, and the one of few university art museums of truly universal scope. Its collections, which number more than 92,000 works in all media, range from ancient to contemporary and span the globe.
Bequests by alumni over the course of more than two centuries has created a collection of extraordinary depth and breadth. In the 1930s alone, in addition to significant gifts of Chinese and Japanese art, several thousand objects, including significant holdings of prints and drawings, were bequeathed to the Museum by a member of the Class of 1888; more than 40 Italian paintings were given by a 1910 graduate, from his family’s villa in Fiesole; and a collection of more than 500 snuff bottles — still regarded as one of the finest early collections of the sort -- was willed by a 1903 graduate.
The outdoor sculpture collection includes works by Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, David Smith, and Tony Smith.
Read our article in the Art Things Considered blog about how the PUAM collection -- described in 1922 as “the oddest kingdom of shreds and patches imaginable” -- became one of the nation’s foremost art museums.