Frank Snyder (1908–1995) was employed by Raymond Pitcairn as a painter and muralist from 1937 to 1940, and he continued working for him on freelance projects into the early 1950s. This article will explore his artistry at Glencairn, which has survived in a variety of media.

In this issue of Glencairn Museum News, we interview Archivist Greg Jackson, who is responsible for the research, cataloging, and accessibility of the historic photographs preserved in the Bryn Athyn Historic District Archives.

In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Dr. Elif Gokcigdem explores the meaning of an object in the Glencairn Museum collection from the city of Kashan in 14th-century Iran: a star-shaped tile depicting the Simurgh, a mythical bird.

In the summer of 2022, Medieval Treasures from the Glencairn Museum opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In this issue of Glencairn Museum News, we will introduce some of the important stained-glass panels, stone sculptures, and ivories now on view at the PMA, and provide our readers with a peek behind the curtain to see why and how the exhibition came about.

Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, associate curator in the Egyptian Section at the Penn Museum, examines the ways in which magic and medicine intertwined in ancient Egypt to promote health and healing from both illness and dangerous creatures such as poisonous snakes and scorpions.

In this issue of Glencairn Museum News we have a conversation with Dr. Wendy Closterman, Professor of History and Greek at Bryn Athyn College, about how she makes effective use of the Glencairn collection in her courses.

Art museums, which preserve and exhibit the tangible products of human creativity from around the globe, can be an ideal environment in which to develop empathy-building skills. In this issue of Glencairn Museum News, we explore Glencairn’s efforts to cultivate empathy through our exhibitions, programs, and tours.

Glencairn, the castle-like Bryn Athyn home of Raymond and Mildred (Glenn) Pitcairn and their children, was built between 1928 and 1939. In this issue of Glencairn Museum News we will examine the variety of reasons given by Raymond Pitcairn himself for building Glencairn, and how his motivations evolved over time.

In this article for Glencairn Museum News, artist, professor, author, and curator Mark Sfirri will explain Hanna Weil Fischer-Binder’s personal history, how she ended up in Bucks County, and how her career eventually led her to carve the wooden Nativity figures she made for the Eisenhower and Pitcairn families.

This is the 13th year for World Nativities, Glencairn Museum’s annual exhibition of three-dimensional Nativity scenes. This year the exhibition presents 60 three-dimensional Nativities collected from 39 countries around the globe, including 16 on loan from the Knights of Columbus Museum, Inc. Collection, in New Haven, Connecticut.