Frances M. Maguire Art Museum

June 11 - Aug 10, 2025

About Us

Our Mission, Leadership, and Space

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Education

Classroom, Field Trips, Scholarship, and Adult Learning

Set in the Barnes Arboretum

Mrs. Barnes' Legacy

Frances M. Maguire

Talent and Passion for Art

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Cultural Coalition Masks by artist Zarco

Student-curated Japanese Woodblock Print Exhibition

Pink Party empowers women through art and speech

Whyy "Hanging on the telephone: Maguire Museum tracks America's disappearing payphones" by Peter Crimmins.

Telmundo: Festejan con gran ofrenda el Dia de los Muertos en Filadelfia

Museum Without Walls, Artwork Archive

Philadelphia Inquirer: The old Barnes Foundation is the new Maguire Art Museum

WHYY: St. Joe’s reopens the old Barnes Foundation building as a new museum

Conservator returns museum art to original state

Architectural Record: The Frances M Maguire Art Museum by DIGSAU

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SJU Visual Arts Programs

The Department of Art and Art History at SJU offers a diverse range of courses in art history, graphic design, painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, and museum studies. Students studying art and art history have full access to the Maguire Museum for learning and exhibition opportunities.

Marvin Samson Museum for the History of Pharmacy

Learn more about our sister museum located on the University City Campus.
The Museum curates exhibitions of the University’s expansive collection of pharmacy artifacts.

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