Conversation | Hidden Stories: Preparing a New Art Museum
Detail of a mosaic being conserved.
Join Museum Director James Steward and Chris Newth, senior associate director for collections and exhibitions, for a lively and insightful accounting of some of the more complex and challenging moments encountered while preparing the new building for the Princeton University Art Museum.
Join Museum Director James Steward and Chris Newth, senior associate director for collections and exhibitions, for a lively and insightful accounting of some of the more complex and challenging moments encountered while preparing the new building for the Princeton University Art Museum. Whether the account be about removing and reinstalling a two-thousand-year-old Byzantine floor mosaic or the riddle of bringing daylighting into the new conservation center, come hear some of the hidden stories found within and outside the walls of the landmark new Museum.
Reception to follow.
LATE THURSDAYS! This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970.
