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Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

114 Central Ave, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Photo: HFJAF3, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

About this place

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, opened in 1973 in a building designed by I.M. Pei & Partners and named for Herbert F. Johnson, Cornell Class of 1922. The Johnson Museum continually seeks to fulfill its cultural and educational responsibility to serve a broad and diverse audience. More than 80,000 visitors come to the Museum each year, from school groups to visitors to the Central New York region. Today, the permanent collection of the Johnson Museum of Art count 40,000 works, spanning six thousand years and showcasing art from most world cultures. The entire collection can be searched via our eMuseum database . Among the strengths of the collection are art from across Asia; more than 23,000 prints, drawings, and photographs from the 15th century to the present; modern and contemporary painting and sculpture; European art from ancient times to the present, African sculpture and textiles, and pre-Columbian sculpture and ceramics. The collections are the foundation for all Johnson Museum of Art initiatives in teaching, research, and the development of projects to connect people, art, and ideas in creative ways.

If you are a member here

A membership to Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University carries reciprocal admission, so the same card is worth free or discounted entry at other places in this program.

  • NARM in New York Art, history and cultural institutions. Not valid within 15 miles of here.

Reciprocal programs are built for travel and most exclude places close to the one where you hold your membership, so this is worth the most when you are away from home. How reciprocal memberships work

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