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Night at the Museum

With its striking new David Adjaye–designed museum, Princeton is signaling that art and the humanities still matter—not just as a subject of study, but as a core part of campus life, community, and institutional identity. Plus, it should help in the escalating battle to attract new students and cultivate alumni gifts…

Princeton Art Museum
Designed by British architect Sir David Adjaye to unite Princeton’s art history and archaeology departments with the museum and the Marquand Library, the new building will be partly accessible to students from 8 a.m. to 10:45 p.m. most of the rest of the school year—a signal of what the museum, which doubled its previous size to 146,000 square feet, is meant to accomplish. Photo: Richard Barnes/Courtesy of the Princeton University Art Museum
Marion Maneker
October 31, 2025

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In celebration of its official opening today, the newly rebuilt Princeton University Art Museum will stay open all night. Of course, spending Halloween in a museum might not sound terribly scary or exciting or even cool to you. (Although, there is a Halloween dance party from 5 to 10 p.m. on the West Terraces, evening collection tours, and a silent disco from 9 to midnight.) But that doesn’t mean the opening isn’t an important event. At a time when the humanities are actively under attack, one of America’s most exclusive undergraduate institutions is embedding art and art history at the center of not only its mission and identity, but also its social life.