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Amid Renovation Work, Glencairn Museum’s Historic Collection Moved to Philadelphia Museum of Art

The ceiling of the Greal Hall at Glencairn Museum soars to 70 feet.
Emma Lee
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WHYY
The ceiling of the Greal Hall at Glencairn Museum soars to 70 feet.

A museum of religious art just outside Philadelphia, in Bryn Athyn has closed down for eighteen months for critical renovation work. The Glencairn Museum also houses an important collection of medieval artifacts. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports some of that collection has been temporarily loaned to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

(Original air-date: 7/29/22)

WHYY’s arts and culture reporter Peter Crimmins first became interested in radio in the fourth grade, when he smuggled a contraband crystal-diode radio into the Boy Scout summer camp. Subsequent radio projects were more successful.