All are invited to the official ribbon cutting with President Neeli Bendapudi, Director Erin Coe, and other distinguished guests at 9:30 a.m. Guided tours of the museum and Arboretum, artmaking activities, refreshments, and other festivities will take place 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Free parking will be available in the Lewis Katz Building lot across from the museum and the Arboretum throughout the weekend.

In support of the opening of the new museum, the Downtown State College Improvement District is sponsoring free bus shuttles from the Palmer Museum of Art to Downtown State College! Palmer guests will be dropped off in the heart of downtown with access to a plethora of diverse restaurants and unique shops. The shuttle will run continuous loops on June 1 from noon to 5:00 p.m., with stops at the 200 block of Beaver Avenue and the Palmer Museum on Bigler Road.

If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about physical access to the Palmer Museum of Art, please contact Rebecca Simpson, Visitor Experience Manager, at 814-863-9068 or rad194@psu.edu in advance.

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Lead Sponsor of MADE IN PA

The Palmer Museum of Art is constructing a new museum within the Arboretum at Penn State to replace the current building on Curtin Road. The innovative new Palmer will be a larger facility that features education spaces, including a teaching gallery, flexible event spaces, and nearly twice the exhibition space of the current museum, allowing for expanded student, faculty, and public access to Penn State’s growing collection of 10,500 works of art.

To access information about the new Palmer Museum of Art and the Arboretum at Penn State, please click to view the new fly-through animation of the new museum or visit our online media room below.