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For those of us committed to the cause of keeping the Barnes Foundation in Merion, the title of this article is axiomatic. We know that the unique ambience of the Barnes, enjoyed and treasured by ...
Foundation officials testified numerous times that the Barnes was going broke in Merion, and needed to move to a bigger gallery in order to survive. The machinations behind the move — which ...
The Barnes Foundation was a part of Montgomery County for nine decades. Its charter still speaks of it as belonging there. Albert C. Barnes gave it as a gift to the Merion community in perpetuity.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The doors are now closed at the Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion, ahead of the art collection's move to its new home on the Ben Franklin Parkway. For some on Sunday ...
Barnes established the foundation in Merion. He understood, however, that the situation could change and there might be a need to move if the collection no longer could be maintained in Merion.
When the Barnes Foundation moved its world-famous art collection to Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway in 2012, it left behind 14 acres of natural landscape at its former site in Lower Merion.
MERION, Pa. (CBS) - The Friends of the Barnes Foundation, a group which has been trying for years to stop the famed art collection from being moved to a new home in Philadelphia, is wondering ...
The decision comes just when the drama around the Barnes Foundation’s 2012 move from its original suburban home in Merion, Pa., to a sleek new facility in Philadelphia, sparking years of ...
The lighting in the galleries of the new building (shown above) is a dramatic improvement over the lighting in the Merion building. But that's the biggest change; Barnes Foundation officials ...