Highlights from the Plaster Cast Collection
... growing taste for these objects both in European museums and university collections, and, later, the United States, where institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (founded in 1870) began collecting them almost immediately for educational purposes. In the first half of the 20th century, ho ...
... growing taste for these objects both in European museums and university collections, and, later, the United States, where institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (founded in 1870) began collecting them almost immediately for educational purposes. In the first half of the 20th century, ho ...
Guided tour - International Academic Staff
... The museum exhibits a suite of plaster casts of the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon temple. The metopes, frieze and east pediment of the temple dedicated to Athena on the Athenian Acropolis can all be seen here. The temple is a monument to a city on the pinnacle of its power. It was built fr ...
... The museum exhibits a suite of plaster casts of the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon temple. The metopes, frieze and east pediment of the temple dedicated to Athena on the Athenian Acropolis can all be seen here. The temple is a monument to a city on the pinnacle of its power. It was built fr ...
RD Milns Antiquities Museum Education Program
... But the good, through the nights, and the days are spent beneath the sun’s bright rays, no tax on the soil with the strength of their hands, nor the broad sea for a poor living, but enjoy a life that knows no toil; with men honoured of heaven, who kept their sworn word gladly, spending an age free f ...
... But the good, through the nights, and the days are spent beneath the sun’s bright rays, no tax on the soil with the strength of their hands, nor the broad sea for a poor living, but enjoy a life that knows no toil; with men honoured of heaven, who kept their sworn word gladly, spending an age free f ...
Princeton University Art Museum
The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is the Princeton University's gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1882, it now houses over 92,000 works of art that range from antiquity to the contemporary period. The Princeton University Art Museum dedicates itself to supporting and enhancing the University’s goals of teaching, research, and service in fields of art and culture, as well as to serving regional communities and visitors from around the world. Its collections concentrate on the Mediterranean region, Western Europe, China, the United States, and Latin America.The Museum has a large collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, including ceramics, marbles, bronzes, and Roman mosaics from Princeton University’s excavations in Antioch. Medieval Europe is represented by sculpture, metalwork, and stained glass. The collection of Western European paintings includes examples from the early Renaissance through the nineteenth century, and there is a growing collection of twentieth-century and contemporary art. Photographic holdings are a particular strength, numbering over 27,000 works from the invention of daguerreotype in 1839 to the present. The Museum is also noted for its Asian art gallery, which includes a wide collection of Chinese calligraphy, painting, ancient bronze works, jade carvings, as well as porcelain selections. In addition to its collections, the Museum mounts regular temporary exhibitions featuring works from its own holdings as well as loans made from public and private collections around the world.Admission is free and the Museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Thursday, 10:00 am to 10:00 pm, and Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 pm.