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Join us in the galleries during designated Quiet Hours for a more relaxed and comfortable visit. During these times, we reduce noise and lighting levels and have no tours scheduled. While all visitors are welcome, these sessions are especially appropriate for individuals with sensory sensitivities, neurodivergent visitors, disabled visitors, and anyone who prefers a calmer […]
Join educators from the Arboretum and the Palmer Museum of Art for a Garden and Gallery Book Conversation. We will be discussing Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane, which explores themes that resonate with the Palmer’s special exhibition Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld. The special exhibition investigates our strained relationship with the environment through various pressing subjects, […]
Drop in and discover the Palmer’s world-class collections and exhibitions with a friendly and knowledgeable museum guide.
In 1955, Penn State Professor of Physics Erwin W. Müller became the first person to see an atom. Using a field ion microscope of his own invention — a landmark advance in scientific instrumentation that magnified these building blocks of the universe more than two million times — Müller, for the first time, determined “the nature of one […]
The Centre Film Festival deepens its mission of bringing global voices to central Pennsylvania through a first-time collaboration with the Palmer Museum of Art, presenting an afternoon where the cinematic, the virtual, and the fine arts converge. Drop-in to enjoy several immersive VR film projects that invite audiences to navigate intimate inner worlds and urgent […]
Glue, stitch, and layer your scrappy bits to create depth and texture on the pages of your Sustainable Art Journal. Creative Studio sessions offer art-based creative activities designed to encourage relaxation, connection with others, and rejuvenation of spirit. Hosted by art therapists, museum educators, interns, or guest artists, these sessions will focus on the practice […]
Enjoy an interdisciplinary gallery conversation with Jonathan Eburne, J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
Get dirty and flirty while exploring the art beneath your feet! In this hands-on workshop, you and your date will create earth-based pigments using soil, clay, and other natural materials with the Arboretum and get a tour of the Palmer Museum of Art’s new exhibition Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld with a museum […]
In 1955, Penn State Professor of Physics Erwin W. Müller became the first person to see an atom. Using a field ion microscope of his own invention — a landmark advance in scientific instrumentation that magnified these building blocks of the universe more than two million times — Müller, for the first time, determined “the nature of one […]
Drop in and discover the Palmer’s world-class collections and exhibitions with a friendly and knowledgeable museum guide.
Join us in the galleries during designated Quiet Hours for a more relaxed and comfortable visit. During these times, we reduce noise and lighting levels and have no tours scheduled. While all visitors are welcome, these sessions are especially appropriate for individuals with sensory sensitivities, neurodivergent visitors, disabled visitors, and anyone who prefers a calmer […]
Discover how art and engineering collide through creative, hands-on activities! Hear from students, staff, and faculty in the College of Engineering at the tabling and research poster showcase and participate in an interdisciplinary gallery conversation with the faculty curators who organized the Teaching Gallery exhibition Structures, Systems, and Society. Light refreshments will be provided.
Enjoy an interdisciplinary gallery conversation during Art After Hours with faculty and staff collaborators on the art and engineering Teaching Gallery exhibition.
