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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
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 / OttoRead more
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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

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