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Penn State board approves plans for $85 million art museum Susan Snyder, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennsylvania State University’s board of trustees on Friday approved final plans for an $85 million art museum to replace an aging facility and house its growing collection.
University officials believe the new museum would be the largest in square footage and size of collection between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
“This new facility will help to advance the (museum) as a cultural destination and scholarly resource for the University, surrounding communities, and visitors from across Pennsylvania and beyond,” Erin Coe, museum director, said in a statement.
Construction is slated to begin this summer, with a projected opening in fall 2023.
Trustees approve final plans for new Palmer Museum of Art
The main entry plaza of the new Palmer Museum of Art, as viewed from Bigler Road in this architect’s rendering, offers access to both the museum and the Arboretum and is designed to integrate with and complement the site’s natural setting.
Image: Allied Works Architecture
Trustees approve final plans for new Palmer Museum of Art
May 07, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. The Penn State Board of Trustees today (May 7) approved final plans for the construction of a new Palmer Museum of Art that will be located alongside the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens within the Arboretum at Penn State on the University Park campus.
Historic painting of Yellowstone by African-American Pennsylvania artist acquired by Penn State museum PennLive.com 4 days ago Marcus Schneck, pennlive.com
A rare painting of an iconic landscape in Yellowstone National Park by an African American artist born in Harrisburg has been added to the collection at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State.
The museum has purchased the 1889 painting, Hot Springs at Yellowstone, by the artist Grafton Tyler Brown, who was born in 1841 in Harrisburg to free Black parents.
Brown, who is remembered for his landscape paintings of Western subjects, from 1886-91 painted more than 2 dozen images of the majestic terrain in Yellowstone, which had been designated a national park just 2 decades earlier.
For the first time since it closed last March because of the pandemic, Penn State’s Palmer Museum of Art is welcoming visitors inside its doors again.
Patrons will notice new coronavirus procedures set in place to protect the community, according to Museum Director Erin Coe. Visitors must reserve a ticket online so that the museum can maintain strict occupancy limits. The front desk is now staffed to answer patrons’ questions, tours are self-guided only, and all visitors are required to practice social distancing and wear masks.
But safety protocols aren’t the only changes made in the 11 months before the museum’s reopening on Feb. 10. Museum staff undertook multiple projects, including renovations, rehousing collections, and digitizing art, Coe says, in addition to running programs online for the duration of the remote period.