Michener Art Museum

Michener Art Museum Home to the largest public collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings and named after Doylestown's most famous son, James A. Michener. The James A.
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We are dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting the art and cultural heritage of Delaware Valley. Michener Art Museum collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits American Art, with a focus on art of the Bucks County region. The Museum presents changing exhibitions that explore a variety of artistic expressions, and offers a diverse program of educational activities that seek to devel

op a lifelong involvement in the arts as well as nurture a wide range of audiences. We also seek to educate our community about nationally and internationally known Bucks County artists of all creative disciplines. Accredited by The American Alliance of Museums, the Michener Art Museum also hosts special events for visitors of all ages, including classes, lectures, conversations, and performances.

09/11/2026

While you’re in town for Doylestown Arts Festival, don’t forget to browse the Michener Art Museum gift shop! Pick up great finds from jewelry to ceramics to metalwork and wood. No admission charge applies for access to the Museum Gift Shop and the Mama Hawk’s Kitchen cafe!
Photography by Tim and Anita Ghebeles.

Don't forget to grab your tickets for our curator lecture on the art of Washington’s Crossing! Hear from Chief Curator L...
09/10/2026

Don't forget to grab your tickets for our curator lecture on the art of Washington’s Crossing! Hear from Chief Curator Laura Igoe on how modern artists have interpreted Emmanual Leutze’s iconic painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Here's the link to register for this one-day-only event on Wednesday, September 16 at 1 p.m.: https://bit.ly/3UJP66M
Photo by Ananda Connolly Photography.

Philadelphia-based orchestra Arts International Concerto Soloists returned to the Michener Art Museum at the end of Augu...
09/09/2026

Philadelphia-based orchestra Arts International Concerto Soloists returned to the Michener Art Museum at the end of August for a sold-out Sunday afternoon concert.

Artistic Director and acclaimed pianist Lance Wiseman, along with the chamber ensemble of international talent led by Conductor Dennis Krasnokutsky, wowed guests with passionate renditions of Beethoven's Turkish March, Piano Concerto No. 3, and other classical works by Schubert, Grieg, and more. Link for more Music at the Michener performances this fall: https://bit.ly/4xiBahz
Photography by Tim and Anita Ghebeles.

Find us at the Doylestown Arts Fest this Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13 from 10-5 p.m.! Do some buttonm...
09/08/2026

Find us at the Doylestown Arts Fest this Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13 from 10-5 p.m.! Do some buttonmaking at the Michener booth ( #63) on East State Street near Siren Records.

While you're out at Arts Fest, don't miss Free Second Sunday on September 13! It's free admission during Museum hours from 12-5 p.m.
Generous support for Second Sundays is provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.

We're closing out Labor Day weekend with stone crushing plants! See how the Pennsylvania Impressionists handled quarries...
09/08/2026

We're closing out Labor Day weekend with stone crushing plants! See how the Pennsylvania Impressionists handled quarries and factories as artistic subjects in the Michener's new exhibition, "Abstractions of Nature: Quarries and Industry in Pennsylvania Impressionism."

Active quarries have been a part of Bucks County’s industry for centuries, mining deposits like Buckingham Valley, a narrow band of limestone and dolomite rock that extends southwest from Center Bridge, Penn., to the outskirts of Doylestown.

The Pennsylvania Impressionists either portrayed quarries as part of the landscape and edited out any markers of active industry, or celebrated quarries at work by intentionally integrating workers and machinery within their compositions. Make sure to stop by on your next museum visit!
Arnold Brothers, Stone Crushing Plant, Rushland, June 26, 1906. Black and white negative. From the collection of the Mercer Museum Research Library of the Bucks County Historical Society.

Charles Rosen (1878-1950), Quarry and Crusher, early 1930s. Oil on canvas, 32 x 40 inches. James A. Michener Art Museum. Museum purchase funded by George C. Benson in honor of his friend, John Horton.

09/04/2026

The Young Friends of the Michener went behind the scenes with Philadelphia ceramicist Roberto Lugo last Friday at his new studio.

Roberto shared the story of how he got started in art, and showed us works of various scales, from pieces he would sell at studio sales (like mugs and teapots) to museum-quality artworks.

Roberto is passionate about making art accessible to everyone, and he’s also passionate about uplifting the faces and stories of underrepresented peoples in his artwork, often depicting African American and Latinx icons in different ways. Thank you to Roberto and his studio for the VIP tour!
Photography by Tim and Anita Ghebeles for Michener Art Museum.

09/04/2026

Our new exhibition on the unexpected side of Pennsylvania Impressionism opens this weekend! Thanks to the Michener Art Museum Museum Members for a great night at the opening reception for “Abstractions of Nature: Quarries and Industry in Pennsylvania Impressionism,” on view through February 28, 2027.

Hear Chief Curator Laura Igoe Laura Igoe give a preview on what you’ll find in the exhibition: the greats of Pennsylvania Impressionism. Special thanks to the exhibition sponsors Rebecca Bushnell & John Toner and the Byers Family, with additional support from M&T Charitable Foundation and the Michener Art Museum’s Business Partners.

09/03/2026

Welcome to our new series of what’s new and on view at the Michener! Take a mini tour with Chief Curator Laura Igoe Laura Igoe to see the new acquisition by Judith Schaechter Judith Schaechter just installed in the galleries: Wondermoths.
Judith Schaechter (b. 1961), Wondermoths, 2025. Stained glass in light box, 33 1/2 x 35 1/4 x 3 inches. James A. Michener Art Museum. Museum purchase funded by Dr. Marion J. Siegman.

09/02/2026

Jumping into September with a moment for these sunflowers in all their glory. They steal the show in “The Short Line” garden for its last growing season, planted in the footprint of three original jail cells of the 1884 Bucks County Jail. Once a jail cell, now a garden. Once the Bucks County Jail, now the Michener Art Museum.
“The Short Line” by artist one M two L’s is part of “Behind These Walls: Reckoning with Incarceration,” a multi-year initiative at the Michener that confronts the site’s former life as a county jail. “Behind These Walls: Reckoning with Incarceration” has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

If you think you know Pennsylvania Impressionism, you're not going to want to miss this new exhibition! "Abstractions of...
08/28/2026

If you think you know Pennsylvania Impressionism, you're not going to want to miss this new exhibition!

"Abstractions of Nature: Quarries and Industry in Pennsylvania Impressionism" features the "poetic charm" of industrial sites in paintings by Daniel Garber, Charles Rosen, and more New Hope School artists. It wasn't just rural landscapes for the Pennsylvania Impressionists—quarries and factories here in the Delaware Valley gave new possibilities for their canvases.

The exhibition opens Labor Day weekend on Saturday, September 5 with 14 artists on view, including William Lathrop, Letitia Maxwell Ely, Roy C. Nuse, Edward Redfield, Bernard Badura, Walter Baum, George Sotter, R.A.D. Miller, Arthur Meltzer, and John Folinsbee. Read more: https://bit.ly/4gXx6y8
Exhibition Coming Soon:
Abstractions of Nature: Quarries and Industry in Pennsylvania Impressionism
On view Saturday, September 5–Sunday, February 28
Cost: Free for Members / Included with general admission

Image credits:
Daniel Garber (1880-1958), Over at Byram, 1940. Oil on canvas mounted on Masonite, 30 x 30 inches. James A. Michener Art Museum. Gift of Oliver Pearson.

Arnold Brothers, Lumberton Quarries, Along the Delaware, ca. 1907. Postcard. From the collection of the Mercer Museum Research Library of the Bucks County Historical Society.

Bernard Badura (1896-1986), Raven Rock Quarry, 1930. Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 ¼ inches. Courtesy of the Woodmere: Gift from the collection of Patricia Van Burgh Allison, 1991.

Letitia Maxwell Ely (1886-1967), Quarry, 1914. Oil on board, 8 x 5 inches. James A. Michener Art Museum. Gift of David B. Long.

Daniel Garber (1880-1958), Abandoned Quarry, 1916. Charcoal on paper, 10 ¼ x 12 1/8 inches. James A. Michener Art Museum. Michener Art Endowment Challenge Gift of Mr. Herbert Ward.

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