Celebrating 50 Years

About the Friends

Just a couple of years from now, in 2024, the Neuberger Museum of Art is going turn 50! But even before we celebrate that major milestone, we have another 50th to celebrate… The 50th Anniversary of the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art. Yes! You’re 50.

The Friends’ generous financial support and wise counsel has been central to the success of the Neuberger Museum of Art, making it one of the largest and most important academic art museums in the United States. The Friends’ legacy and impact on the museum continues to be remarkable, elevating our margins of excellence to levels that few of our peer organizations can sustain in equal measure. We are grateful to the Friends for their ongoing support.

Today, I’m excited to invite you to the Friends’ “50th Big Birthday Celebration” on June 11th. The evening will be filled with food, fun and friends and will be throughout the galleries of the Neuberger feature a very special exhibition, The Friends at 50: Selections from the Collection. I curated this project with an eye toward filling our galleries with the amazing objects that have come into the museum’s collection through the efforts of the Friends. The exhibition is extraordinary in its breadth and scope, and demonstrates the enormous impact the Friends have had on the museum’s ability to assemble and steward a world class collection that it shares with generations of campus and community visitors.