LibGuides: Princeton University: Princeton University Art Museum

Art Museum Under Construction

The Princeton Art Museum is temporarily closed during construction of a new museum and is scheduled to reopen in Spring 2025.

During construction, selected exhibitions will be on display through the Art@Bainbridge gallery project, located at 158 Nassau St. and the Art on Hulfish gallery at 11 Hullfish Street, both in downtown Princeton. Explore the website for additional digital offerings.

Exhibit Schedules
Exhibition schedules for Art@Bainbridge and Art on Hullfish galleries.
Admission is free.

General Information

Facility:	Princeton University Art Museum
Address:	Princeton University Campus Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone:	(609) 258-3788
FAX:	N/A

About the Museum:

With origins dating back to the 1750s, Princeton University Art Museum is one of the oldest collecting institutions in America. The museum was officially founded in 1882, with Asian collections beginning in the 1930s.

For more information on the Japanese collections, please contact Zoe Kwok at (609) 258-6849 or by email.

Hours of Operation
Currently Closed, see Exhibit Schedules above for temporary galleries.
Contact Form

Online Resources

Museum Videos
Online Art-making Tutorials
Tutorials for drawing or painting
Online Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions

Summary of Collections

Collection size: as of September 2014

The Princeton University Art Museum includes over 92,000 objects focused on Western Europe, East Asia, the United States, and Latin America.

The Asian Collection at the museum is comprised of over 6,000 objects from China, Japan, Korea, Southeast and Central Asia, and India. Objects date from the Neolithic period to the present day, with a focus on pottery in various mediums, sculpture, woodblock prints, painting, and calligraphy.

Databases

Asian Art Collection
A selection of objects from the museum's Asian collection presented digitally alongside curatorial and scholarly annotations.
About the Asian Art Collection
Background information about the collection, the curator, and Collection Stories

Research Collections and Facilities

Access

How to Use the Facility

Research at the Museum

The Princeton University Museum website does not give information concerning visiting scholars using their collections. Instead, they support emphasize the ability to access many of the items held at the museum via their collections database, and the Handbook of Collections published in 2013.

Gallery Floor Map
currently under construction

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