Web Projects
Unique online exhibitions present new research on the Museum's permanent collection and special exhibitions while exploring the boundaries of interactive web-based learning.
Asian Art Collection Selections from the Princeton University Art Museum's collection of over six thousand works of Asian art are presented along with ongoing curatorial and scholarly research.
The Life and Death of Buildings on view through November 6. A meditation on the ways photography and architecture embody the past, this exhibition addresses the long-term flux of built environments.
Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait
With videos, illustrations, and teaching resources, this online exhibition highlights archaeological art from the Bering Strait region while considering the contemporary native peoples who continue to be inspired by ancient art and traditional lifeways.
American Portraits: Click and Learn
Through John Singleton Copley's portrait of Elkanah Watson, this interactive introduces the artist and the sitter in the context of eighteenth-century American art and history.
Recapturing the Image Based on a conservator’s color reconstruction and x-ray analysis, this website traces the steps taken by the Italian artist Andrea di Bartolo as he created his altarpiece Madonna and Child ( c. 1410-15).
Sorcerers of the Fifth Heaven This layered, interactive website allows you to investigate a Nahua (central Mexican) ceramic seated deity, a vessel for burning incense. Produced just prior to European incursion, it offers remarkable insight into ancient Mexican art and ritual practices.
Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines" An interactive model of the Wu Family Shrine – created using 3D modeling software, GPS readings, and rubbings from the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum – allows you to explore the artistic, literary, political, and religious foundations of one of ancient China’s richest cultural eras.
Music from the Land of the JaguarThis exhibition of musical instruments from the ancient American cultures that flourished from 1000 B.C. to the beginning of the Spanish conquest in 1519 A.D. allows you to explore connections between musical and ritual iconography in ancient Mexican, Central, and South American art.
Félix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist A pioneering project produced through the collaboration of the Princeton University Art Museum and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, this website portrays the concrete buildings of Candela as works of structural art.
The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy A collaboration of the Princeton University Art Museum and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, this online exhibition brings together the six Swiss engineers who form the most impressive group of structural artists in the twentieth century: Robert Maillart, Othmar H. Ammann, Heinz Isler, and Christian Menn.
