The Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey has revealed that, after ten years of planning and construction, its new home will finally open to the public on 31 October. Its new 146,000-sq.-ft home, which doubles the museum’s former space (demolished in 2021), will host a 24-hour community open house to celebrate.

“This will be an opportunity for us to show everything the building has the capacity to do,” James Steward, director of the museum, tells The Art Newspaper of the opening celebration. Although the schedule is still in the works, Steward envisions a dance party, yoga, spoken-word poetry, curator-led tours and a film screening as part of the all-night affair. He adds that the annual Princeton Halloween parade will be rerouted to end at the museum for a family-friendly event.

Located on the campus of Princeton University, the museum’s new building was designed by the architecture firms Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson—the pair also built the new Studio Museum in Harlem, scheduled to open this autumn as well.

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