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How to Open a New Old Museum
In 1923, during an
exhibition of his art collection that would become the Barnes Foundation in Merion,
Pennsylvania, two years later, Dr. Albert C.
Barnes told an interviewer, “I am trying to do the biggest thing for
Philadelphia that any one man has attempted.” Nearly nine decades later, the
grand reopening of
the Barnes Foundation in its new location on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in
Philadelphia is attempting something even bigger—the opening of a new old museum
that will make both the fans of the old place and fans of the new place both
happy. With a beautiful new $150 million USD building and campus surrounding
Dr. Barnes’ priceless old collection, it’s hard for anyone to complain. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "
How to Open a New Old Museum."
[Image: View of the Barnes
Foundation looking south east at night. The Barnes Foundation Philadelphia.
© 2012 Tom Crane.]
[Many thanks to the Barnes
Foundation for providing the image above and other press materials as well
as for inviting me to the press preview.]
3 comments:
The Barnes collection was brilliant at the time, and rescued some of my favourite artists from penury. The problem was that Barnes wanted every single thing to be left in EXACTLY the spot where he placed it back in 1930 (or whenever he made the decisions).
But history moves on and I will be interested in seeing how the new site handles the display questions.
What a beautiful picture! I think after all the controversy has settled, people will realize that this new building had all the best intentions -- to preserve the ART and not a dead man's wish. Artworks are living documents.
hope you'll visit me:)
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