I am not an "arty" but this collection is astounding. The setting is magnificent, the arrangement of the pieces is very thoughtful, and the overall experience is very satisfying. Well worth the price and time.

it is quite an extraordinary museum by the sheer number of renoir (183) and cesanne (84) without counting the picasso,modigliani, rousseau, van gogh, gauguin etc.. + very beautiful objects as well. Faithfully replicated from its original location, the rooms are encased in a modern building that are more adapted to receive more visitors. if one does not know about the... More

No other museum in the world has such a collection. A must go for those that love Impressionist art.

While there are some great works by Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, and a few by Picasso and Van Gogh, the presentation of the various pieces is crowded and utterly chaotic which compromises one's ability to enjoy a given painting. At times I thought I was playing "where's Waldo". Also, there are a lot of "why is this being displayed" pieces mixed... More

People with average museum-tourist knowledge of art will find some of this enjoyable and some of it confusing or annoying. So will people with deeper knowledge of art history and curatorship, but for different reasons. The obvious, often distracting reverence for Barnes and his putative (but sometimes debatable) connoisseurship; the focus on only a few pieces per room, sometimes missing... More

I have been living in the Philadelphia area almost 20 years, and I have followed the controversy over Dr Barnes collection. It is different than any other art museum I have seen. The displays are bizarre, but I found that it made the art all that more interesting as I puzzled over why Barnes arranged it the way he did.... More

Great paintings. However, all the criticisms people have made about the presentation in the old building are still justified in the new setting. Everything is STILL cluttered, crowded, often hard to appreciate. One longs for the old-fashioned wall labels. Why all the metal wall ornaments? Why the bizarre juxtapositions whose supposed meaning exists only in the mind of the deceased... More

Fabulous museum and special events. Interesting history and collection and in a great part of Philadelphia .

Stunning collection, both in scope, and arrangement of the art, set in a jewel box of a new museum in the Arts district of Philadelphia. Do not miss this.