Mixed Reactions, but Mostly More Anger, as Design Plans for the New Barnes Foundation are Unveiled

If you were to wander into Philadelphia’s city limits this week, it’s likely that you would have heard the renewed talk over the controversial 2002 decision to relocate the bulk of Albert Barnes‘ massive art collection, now housed at the famed Barnes Foundation in the suburbs, to a new facility in central Philadelphia. Since all of that was announced, a legal battle has taken place to try and get it stopped, the president of the Foundation resigned in protest, and constant reminders from those against the move that Barnes himself had stated in his will that “the collection be kept ‘in exactly the places they are.'”