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Second Century Campaign

Now in our second century of operations, the Barnes is continuing our $100 million capital campaign to enhance educational programs and community engagement initiatives, support operations, and ensure future excellence. Your donation to the Second Century Campaign, through endowment and multiyear project support and naming opportunities, provides transformative experiences for generations to come.

Contact the advancement office at 215.278.7110 for information about making a donation.

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A Letter from the Neubauer Family Executive Director and President

Dear Friends,

At the Barnes Foundation, we strive to be true to the values of our founder. Each day we work to further Dr. Barnes’s ideals of inclusion and access by sharing the power of art with an ever-larger and increasingly diverse audience. Since moving to the Parkway in 2012, we have significantly expanded our educational offerings, launched a critically acclaimed special exhibitions program, and grown our connections to Philadelphia through thoughtful collaboration with community partners.

We are grateful for the commitment and trust of the benefactors who have made these accomplishments possible. These successes have allowed us to grow exponentially as an organization and lay the strong foundation necessary for a vibrant future. We are thus excited to announce an ambitious new initiative to raise critical endowment support: the Second Century Campaign, with a $100 million goal.

As we approach the 100th anniversary of the Barnes’s public opening in 2025, the Second Century Campaign will enable us to evolve the ways in which we fulfill our mission, creating new models of exceptional programming for our many audiences while caring for our peerless collection. Your support, and that of others near and far, will extend the great legacy of this unique institution.

Please join our journey into the Barnes’s second century.

With gratitude,

Thom Collins
Neubauer Family Executive Director and President

A Letter from the Board and Campaign Chairs

Dear Friends,

When we announced the Barnes’s relocation to the heart of Philadelphia over a decade ago, we made important commitments to our community—and we kept them. We built a state-of-the-art building to safely house and care for the collection, and we enabled hundreds of thousands of people from the region and all over the world to experience exceptional works of art and participate in an extensive and varied set of programs. More than two million visitors from all 50 states and 130 countries have visited the Barnes since we opened on the Parkway, including thousands of schoolchildren and community members.

We are delighted that the Barnes is now an integral part of Philadelphia’s cultural fabric. Yet we must already look to the future. Now in our second century, we are recommitting to sharing our collection more broadly, furthering our educational mission, growing our endowment, and ensuring the financial strength of the Barnes. With the Barnes’s strong record of public service and innovative exhibition, education, and community engagement programs, the impact of the Second Century Campaign and of each gift to it will be felt immediately by those we serve today, and, without question, by generations to come.

Yours sincerely,

Aileen K. Roberts
Chair, Barnes Foundation Board of Trustees

Joseph Neubauer
Chair, Second Century Campaign