Please note the following changes in hours and services offered by the
Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives. In anticipation of our
upcoming move, the staff will need to prepare collections and reduce public
services in two phases:
1) February 1 - June 16, 2006: limited access to collections.
No reference assistance will be offered by telephone, mail or email. Users
may visit the Library and Archives by appointment only to conduct their own
research in the afternoons, Tuesday through Friday, from 1:00 - 4:00 pm. To
schedule an appointment, please call the Library at (215) 684-7650 or the
Archives at (215) 684-7659.
2) June 19, 2006 - late spring 2007: the Library and Archives
will be closed to all outside research.
This temporary service interruption is necessary because the PMA Library and
Archives will be moving in late 2006 to the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman
Building (formerly known as the Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company
Building), located at 25th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, across
the street from the main Museum building. The Perelman Building is currently
undergoing a major renovation to create an improved and expanded space for
the Library and Archives, along with art galleries, curatorial study-storage
areas, an educational resource center, conservation labs, and offices. We
look forward to welcoming researchers to our new home.
For further updates concerning the PMA moving project, including the
official date of reopening (still to be determined), please check the
Museum's website at http://www.philamuseum.org.
C. Danial Elliott
Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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