This year, Glencairn Museum’s annual World Nativities exhibition features 63 Nativity scenes from 29 countries, highlighting the many ways artists around the world interpret the Christmas story through their own cultural, regional, and artistic traditions.

In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Dr. Jennifer Wegner, curator in the Egyptian section at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, explores what ancient artifacts in the Glencairn Museum collection reveal about daily life in ancient Egypt.

The staircase connecting Glencairn’s third and fourth floors features a remarkable series of cast-concrete birds that faithfully recreate ten plates from the book Birds of America by John James Audubon, the renowned naturalist and painter. 

This issue of Glencairn Museum News features Ariel Gunther (1903–1993), who began working in stained glass at 19 and went on to manage the Bryn Athyn glassworks until it closed in 1942. He played a key role in developing stained-glass and mosaic techniques for Bryn Athyn Cathedral and Glencairn.

On Saturday, April 5, Glencairn Museum celebrated the opening of the exhibition Rushnyky: Sacred Ukrainian Textiles with a special members event featuring representatives from the local Ukrainian cultural community.

In this issue of Glencairn Museum News, Met Cloisters curator Julia Perratore explores the collecting practices of George Grey Barnard, founder of the first Cloisters museum in New York City, and Raymond Pitcairn, whose private holdings form the basis of the Glencairn Museum collection. 

In her essay for Glencairn Museum News, Isabella Weiss, a PhD candidate in art history at Rutgers University, investigates the Boar Hunt tapestry on exhibit in Glencairn’s third-floor Library.

This year, Glencairn Museum’s annual World Nativities exhibition presents 57 three-dimensional Nativity scenes collected from 31 countries around the globe. 

In her essay, Dr. Jennifer Wegner, curator in the Egyptian section at the Penn Museum, writes about a new collaboration that has brought eight ancient Egyptian artifacts to Glencairn’s Egyptian gallery.

In her essay for Glencairn Museum News, Valentina Anselmi, a PhD candidate in Egyptology in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Pennsylvania, explores the mysteries of a wooden funerary statue on exhibit in Glencairn’s Egyptian gallery.