Princeton University Art Museum

About

Princeton University Art Museum reopened in a new building on October 31, 2025, on the same site as its previous home. The building groups its galleries into nine interlocked pavilions and roughly doubles the space the museum had before for showing art and running education programs. The collection holds more than 117,000 objects spanning over 5,000 years, and where the old building could show only about two percent of the collection at a time, the new galleries put far more of it on view.

Inside, visitors move between galleries organized by region and era, plus rotating shows in dedicated exhibition spaces. As of August 2026 the museum has several exhibitions on view, including "Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan," running through September 7, 2026. The building also has two creativity labs for hands-on art making, six object study classrooms, and an auditorium, along with the Mosaic restaurant on the third floor and a museum store on the first.

Admission is free. The museum is open Monday through Wednesday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. It closes on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, and the Fourth of July.

The museum sits on Princeton University's central campus. Nassau Street, downtown Princeton's main commercial street, is a short walk away and is also home to the museum's satellite gallery, Art@Bainbridge, open Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., plus a second museum store on Palmer Square that keeps its own separate hours.

Accessibility

Princeton University Art Museum is wheelchair accessible. The building, which opened in 2025, has four accessible entrances, one on each side, and all three floors are reachable by elevator.

Parking directly at the museum takes advance planning. ADA drop-off and parking on campus needs approval from the museum at least three business days ahead; call 609-258-3788, option 1, or email Louise Barrett at [email protected]. Visitors without that approval typically use the Stadium Drive Garage during the day or the Theater Drive Garage after hours, both a walk from the museum. TigerAccess, a free university shuttle with a wheelchair-accessible van, runs curb-to-curb on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. for anyone with a permanent or temporary disability and can help cover that distance.

Inside, the museum lists a restroom with adaptations on the first floor, set up for a left-hand transfer. Seating is available on the ground level and on benches in some second-floor galleries, and portable stools can be carried between rooms. Wheelchairs and canes are loaned at the information desk on a first-come, first-served basis; ask there when you arrive.

Service animals are welcome throughout the building. Pets and emotional support animals are not.

The museum's accessibility page and its AccessAble access guide do not publish details on gallery floor surfaces, door widths, braille or high-contrast signage, audio description, assistive listening devices, sign language interpretation, or sensory-friendly hours. Call visitor services at 609-258-3788 to ask about any of these before you visit.

Checked by Accessible America, August 2026. Report a change

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Photo credits

• Princeton University Art Museum's stone and glass building with its name inscribed above the entrance.: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY 4.0 (source)
• A flat paved walkway leads to the Princeton University Art Museum's glass entrance doors.: Gary Miotla, CC BY 3.0 (source)
• A row of headless bronze figures stands in front of the Princeton University Art Museum's modern facade.: Andreas Praefcke, CC BY 3.0 (source)