Glencairn Museum

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location= Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
locmapin = Pennsylvania
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built =1929
architect= Pitcairn,Raymond
architecture= Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Other
added = August 31, 1978
governing_body = Private
refnum=78002434cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Glencairn Museum, located on 1001 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, is a New Church-affiliated museum of religious history on the National Register of Historic Places. It houses a collection of about 8,000 mostly religious artwork from many cultures as diverse as ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek and Roman, medieval Christian, Islamic, Asian, and Native American. It consists of more than 100 rooms on 11 floors, adjacent to Ralph Adams Cram's Gothic Revival Bryn Athyn Cathedral (1913-19).

The castle-like building was the former house of millionaire businessman Raymond Pitcairn (1885-1966) and his wife, Mildred Glenn (died 1979). [The Pitcairn fortune derived from control of Pittsburgh Plate Glass, of which his father was director, 1896-1906; the Pitcairns were funders of the American Liberty League; ( [http://www.pitcairn.com/ Pitcairn Financial Group] ).] The name of the museum is a combined form of Raymond's last name and Mildred's maiden name. Pitcairn, a member of the New Church himself, had no formal training in architecture and built it in the Romanesque style between 1928 and 1939. After Mildred's death in 1979 (Raymond had previously died in 1966) the house, with its collections and Pitcairn archives was given to the Academy of the New Church. [ [http://www.glencairnmuseum.org/ Glencairn Museum] ]

ee also

*Bryn Athyn College

External links

* [http://www.glencairnmuseum.org/ Glencairn Museum official site]

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