This article explores the artistic contributions of Benjamin Augustus Tweedale (1868–1957), an accomplished stone carver whose craftsmanship left an indelible imprint on both Glencairn and Bryn Athyn Cathedral.
Read MoreIn Their Own Words: Memories of the Glencairn Girls
The “Glencairn Girls” were employed by the Pitcairn family in Glencairn from 1939 to 1979. In this issue of Glencairn Museum News we explore what life was like for the Glencairn Girls—in their own words.
Read MoreChrist Receiving His Mother’s Soul: A Thirteenth-Century Stained-Glass Panel
In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Mary Prevo explores a 13th-century panel of stained glass depicting Christ entrusting Mary's soul to the archangels Michael and Gabriel after her death.
Read MoreUnwrapping the Mysteries of a Mummy Bandage in the Glencairn Museum Collection
In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, associate curator in the Egyptian Section at Penn Museum, explores the history of funerary spells in ancient Egypt. The essay features a fragment of a decorated mummy bandage in the Glencairn collection, inscribed with spells from the Book of the Dead.
Read MoreHistory Repeating: The Story of Glencairn Museum’s Acts of the Apostles Tapestries
In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Jack Hinton, Henry P. McIlhenny Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, relates the remarkable story of Glencairn’s three Raphael tapestries, their creation, and significance.
Read MoreMuseums of Medieval Art at the Time of Glencairn’s Creation: Between Authenticity and Fiction
Iñigo Salto Santamaría is a doctoral candidate in art history at the Technical University of Berlin. In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, he positions Glencairn and its collections within the context of European and American museums of medieval art in the 1930s—the decade when Glencairn was completed.
Read MoreThe Glencairn Christmas Sing: An 86-Year-Old Community Tradition
For 86 years, the Bryn Athyn community has been attending and participating in the Glencairn Christmas Sing. In this issue of Glencairn Museum News we explore the beginning and early years of this unique community tradition.
Read MoreFollow the Star: A 2022 Advent Calendar
This issue of Glencairn Museum News introduces Follow the Star: A 2022 Advent Calendar. The calendar is available both on the Museum’s website and in the form of daily posts on our Facebook and Instagram pages.
Read MoreChristmas in the Castle: A New Haven Museum Recreates Christmas at Glencairn
Christmas in the Castle, an immersive exhibition featuring almost 50 Nativities from the Glencairn Museum collection, runs from November 11, 2022 through February 5, 2023 at the Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center in New Haven, Connecticut.
Read More“Lion of the Rulers”: The Funerary Stela of Maienhekau
In this issue of Glencairn Museum News, Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, associate curator in the Egyptian Section at the Penn Museum, explains the texts and decoration carved on the limestone “false door” stela of a New Kingdom official named Maienhekau.
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