Michener Museum wins award
BUCKS COUNTY International award for Michener Museum DOYLESTOWN The Michener Art Museum is having a good month. Last week it opened a much-anticipated exhibit on Grace Kelly with festivities that included a visit from Prince Albert II of Monaco.
![The James A. Michener Art Museum's new pavilion gives those inside an expansive view of the museum's sculpture garden and its reflecting pools. MICHAEL MORAN / Otto](https://www.inquirer.com/resizer/0W-LYmX_RK8JuHKpIt5LSc6OeAY=/760x507/smart/filters:format(webp)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OMQ6RT4NDRFXBMGN7G2NC2WKBQ.jpg)
BUCKS COUNTY
International award for Michener Museum
DOYLESTOWN The Michener Art Museum is having a good month.
Last week it opened a much-anticipated exhibit on Grace Kelly with festivities that included a visit from Prince Albert II of Monaco.
And Monday, the museum announced that its year-old glass pavilion earned a prestigious global architecture award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The Edgar N. Putnam Pavilion, a 3,400-square-foot event space completed in 2012, was one of 60 buildings worldwide given a 2013 International Architecture Award, according to the museum.
The distinction is the pavilion's second architectural award, the statement said: In 2012, it won a Gold Medal for Design Excellence from the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
The glass pavilion plays off one of the museum's defining features - the large stone wall remaining from the 19th-century Bucks County Prison that originally occupied the site. It hosts lectures and private events.
- Chris Palmer