If you’ve never been to the Berman Museum of Art, here are a few highlights you should know about before you go.

Located in Collegeville on the campus of Ursinus College, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art is one of Montgomery County’s premier art institutions. For more than three decades the museum has served not only the students of Ursinus College but also the surrounding community.

The museum houses over 8,000 pieces in its permanent collection, as well as almost 80 sculptures in its outdoor sculpture collection. The collection also features important prints, photographs, and more thanks to the generosity of donors invested in the museum’s mission and growth.

Collections

In addition to a wide array of rotating exhibitions, the museum has eight permanent collections that show off art from around the world. Here is a sampling of those collections.

• Modern and Contemporary: The collection includes various prints, paintings, and sculptures. Featured collection highlights include over 270 works by Francois Gilot, over 160 works by Lynn Chadwick, and works by Kara Walker, Hank Willis Thomas, and Andy Warhol.

• 19^th and 20^th-century American and European: The collection includes over 300 works by Albert J. Adolphe and has a concentration of work by regional painters such as Walter E. Schofield, Walter E. Baum, Colin Campbell Cooper,
• John Sloan, and portraits by the Peale family.

• 16^th– to 19^th-century European Works on Paper. The collection includes the works of William Blake, Jean-Jacques de Boissieu and Jan van der Bruggen.

The museum also houses permanent collections on Pennsylvania German art, Japanese prints, folk art, and photography. Throughout the campus, you can also enjoy almost 80 sculptures.

Explore what the museum has to offer more at Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Center.

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