A nominal fee is charged for adult groups. The permanent collections of The Art Museum range from ancient to contemporary art, and concentrate, geographically, on the Mediterranean regions, Western Europe, China, the United States, and Latin America. There is an outstanding collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, including ceramics, marbles, and bronzes, and Roman mosaics from Princeton University's excavations in Antioch. Medieval Europe is represented by sculpture, metalwork, and stained glass. The collection of Western European paintings includes important examples from the early Renaissance through the nineteenth century, and there is a growing collection of twentieth-century and contemporary art.
Significant loans amplify the collection in many areas.
The Museum has important collections of old master prints and drawings and a comprehensive collection of original photographs. African art is represented as well as Northwest Coast Indian art, on loan to the Museum from the Department of Geology. Not housed in the Museum, but part of the University collection, the John B. Putnam, Jr., Memorial Collection of twentieth-century sculpture includes works by such modern masters as Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, and located throughout the campus. The Museum Shop offers a wide selection of books, posters, postcards and notecards, jewelry, and other publications and merchandise relating to Museum exhibitions and its collections. Visa and Mastercard are accepted.