About Us :
Since 1965, the Lancaster Museum of Art, located in the City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been a leading source for culture, and education for people living in, as well as visiting, this region.
The Lancaster Museum of Art is recognized as:
One of the largest cultural organizations in the region responsible for an extensive collection of works by contemporary regional artists.
A vital educational resource serving students and partnering with city and county schools to enhance curriculum in the visual arts.
Conservator of the historically significant 1845-46 Grubb Family Mansion
The Lancaster Museum of Art, a nonprofit community arts center, is dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts through exhibitions and educational programming.
This organization, founded in 1965 by a group of artists and community leaders, was initially located on the campus of Franklin and Marshall College and known as the Goethean Gallery. The organization relocated to a downtown location and became the Community Gallery of Lancaster County, moved in 1979 to its present location in the Grubb Mansion adjacent to Musser Park, which is owned by the City of Lancaster. The Community Gallery became the Lancaster Museum of Art in 1996.
The Museum provides a 4000 square foot facility for exhibitions of regional, national and international artists in a variety of media, artist's lectures, panel discussions, workshops and art classes for children and adults. The Museum recently approved as a Heritage Resource Site, is open to the public, free of charge, Monday-Saturday 10 am-4 pm and Sunday Noon-4 pm and is handicapped accessible on the first floor.
With a service region of over 250,000, the Museum attracts over 30,000 visitors every year. The Museum's variety of programs and exhibitions responds to the region's expanding and increasingly diverse audience that includes people of all ages, cultures, and educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. The Lancaster Museum of Art does much more than just present exhibitions of works from its permanent collection. Each year the Museum's exhibition schedule features 16 different exhibitions, offering a wide range of national, international and regional exhibitions such as children's art, juried and contemporary crafts exhibits. Traveling and temporary exhibits are a large part of the diverse schedule the Museum has to offer.
