The Barnes offers customized benefits for your clients, customers, and colleagues, ensuring that your organization is recognized for its philanthropic support. Complimentary memberships, entertaining privileges in our premier spaces, and private tours are among the many benefits the Barnes offers its corporate sponsors.

We invite sponsorship in the following areas:

Education and Public Outreach Programming

The new downtown campus will welcome thousands of students from the School District of Philadelphia, positioning the Barnes as a rich resource for the city’s schoolchildren. For K-8 students, the Barnes offers single- and multi-session programs based on the collection's unique cross-cultural ensemble installations. Sponsor a particular grade-level initiative, provide complimentary travel, or cover admission costs for Head Start and public school classes.

              
May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
Syde Hurdus Foundation

Special Exhibitions

The Barnes Foundation’s new art and education facility on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway includes a 5,000-square-foot space to accommodate three special exhibitions a year that complement the permanent collection.

Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture on the Wall is sponsored by:

and Jeanette and Joe Neubauer 

with additional generous support from Agnes Gund and Gordon Gund, Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Exhibition Fund,  Comcast|NBCUniversal, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, Johnson Art and Education Foundation, Leigh and John Middleton, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Marsha and Jeffrey Perelman, Aileen and Brian Roberts, Katherine and Keith Sachs, and an anonymous donor. Support for the accompanying publication is generously provided by Matthew Marks Gallery and Christie's.

Publications

The Barnes Foundation houses one of the finest collections of 19th- and 20th-century French painting in the world. An extraordinary number of masterpieces by Renoir and Matisse provide a perspective on them that is unavailable anywhere else. Publications that explore the highlights of the collection—and Renoir and Matisse in depth—will be available in 2012 and 2013, providing scholars and the public with breathtaking images and insight into the artists and the collector.

       

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