News Next Door: Saying Goodbye to the Barnes Collection

After nearly 90 years in Merion, Albert Barnes’ world-renowned art collection is down to its last month on Latches Lane.

In the building’s first floor gallery, Barnes’ painstaking arrangements of Renoirs, Piccasos, Soutines and Cezannes are, in a number of locations, interrupted by sporadic sections of blank wall space.

These and other signs of the times remind visitors of the pieces’ imminent move to a new home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. 

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