Exhibitions

Our first floor Gallery, located on the right as you enter the building from 6th Street, features rotating special exhibitions, free and open to the public.
November 8 - December 28, 2024 picture

The Cutting Room Floor: Invitational Collage Exhibition

In collaboration with Collage Philadelphia, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia is pleased to present The Cutting Room Floor, a group exhibition featuring works by twelve renowned artists. An ode to the process of collage, these works reflect the physical as well as conceptual choices—of removal and redaction, layering and accumulation, pairing and juxtaposing—each artist brings to their singular process of image-making.

Including works by Ian Berry, Alex Da Corte, Jake Dombroski, Emily Erb, Kensuke Kioke, Yannick Lowery, NDA Street Art, Lisa Roberts, Justin Ruby, Mark Wagner, Kira Wong, and Mario Zoots.

 

Sponsored in part by The Roger W. Moss Symposium Fund, Poor Richard's Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, and Collé.

Image from:  Flooded by Yannick Lowery

January 17 - March 15, 2025 picture

Lynnewood Hall

Located in Elkins Park, Lynnewood Hall was designed by Horace Trumbauer in 1897 as a home for Peter A.B. Widener and his family. After serving as a residence and later a seminary, the 110,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion was left vacant and crumbling for over thirty years.

Presented in partnership with The Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation, Inc., this exhibition is the first to display fragments from the building, personal items from the Widener family and archival photographs to tell the rich history of Lynnewood Hall and what the future holds for this storied property.

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