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The Barnes Foundation has a new home.
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The Barnes Museum, which is an educational art museum that currently is located in Merion, Pa., has found a new home; the museum will be relocated to the east side of 2100 block of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, “a stretch sometimes known as Museum Mile, which includes the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rodin Museum, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Franklin Institute and the Academy of Natural Sciences.”
The Barnes Foundation was founded in 1922 by Dr. Albert C. Barnes to "promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts."
Its collection now includes works by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Seurat, Rousseau, Modigliani, Soutine, Monet, Monet, Degas, Van Gogh and others. This collection is known as one of the most exquisitely privately owned collection of art in the world.
An official ground breaking ceremony of the new home to the Barnes Foundation has been scheduled for October 15, 2008.
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