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Princeton University is one of the most "artistically planned" universities.

Princeton University, one of the oldest universities in the United States, has been the subject of numerous aspects of popular culture. It organizes exhibitions and also supports and encourages students, who value and create art.

Also The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is the Princeton University gallery of art, located in Princeton. The Princeton University Art Museum dedicates itself to supporting and enhancing the University's goals of teaching, research, and service in fields of art and culture, as well as to serving regional communities and visitors from around the world.

Princeton is one of the top universities in the world.

Our undergraduate and graduate programs emphasize learning, creativity, innovation and collaboration.

Areas of study:

Department of Art and Archaeology

The Department of Art and Archaeology is devoted to the study of the visual arts and the investigation of material artifacts from a wide range of cultures and periods. Undergraduate programs of study include history of art and studio arts. An undergraduate certificate in archaeology is available. The graduate program in Art and Archaeology is designed to prepare students for teaching and research at the university level, curatorial positions in museums, and other careers in the visual arts.
Degrees & Certificates
• A.B.
• Undergraduate certificate
• Ph.D.

Department of Music

Musicology embraces the study of history, theory and practice of music from many points of view. Graduate study in musicology may cover approaches such as historical and ethnographic investigation as well as music theory, hermeneutics and criticism.

Degrees & Certificates
• Ph.D.

Program in Visual Arts

In the undergraduate program, students explore visual art and media and develop their creative skills in connection with a liberal arts education. Courses are offered in painting, drawing, graphic design, media, sculpture, photography, filmmaking and film history and criticism. Studio courses emphasize direct, hands-on art making under the guidance of practicing visual arts professionals.

Degrees & Certificates
• Undergraduate certificate

School of Architecture

The School of Architecture’s undergraduate program is known for its rigorous and interdisciplinary approach to pre-professional education within the framework of a liberal arts curriculum. The master’s degree has both a professional and a post-professional track, emphasizing design expertise in the context of architectural scholarship. The doctoral program focuses on the history, theory, and criticism of architecture, urbanism, landscape, and building technology.
Degrees & Certificates
• A.B.
• M.Arch.
• Ph.D.

Department of Comparative Literature

Undergraduate study approaches literature from a broad, cross-cultural perspective. The curriculum encompasses literatures, languages, and cultures from around the world. Students motivated to understand literature in the broadest terms or those interested in particular examples of literary comparison will find an intellectual home in Comparative Literature.
The graduate program enables students with exceptional training in languages and literatures to profit from the increased awareness and understanding from the considered view of more than one literature and of the theoretical presuppositions behind literary study as a whole.
Degrees & Certificates
• A.B.
• Ph.D.

Department of Language and culture

The program is administered through individual language and literature departments to allow students in any concentration to earn a certificate in language and culture. Certificates can be earned in the departments of classics, East Asian studies, French and Italian, German, Near Eastern studies, Slavic languages and literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures.
Degrees & Certificates
• Undergraduate certificate

Program in Media and Modernity

The graduate program promotes the interdisciplinary study of the unique cultural formations that came to prominence during the last two centuries, with special attention paid to the interplay between culture and technology. The program centers on architecture, art, film, photography, literature, philosophy, music, history and all forms of electronic media from radio to video and information technologies.
Degrees & Certificates
• Graduate certificate

Art Making and courses

The Princeton University Art Museum and Princeton University school of Architecture offers a variety of art-making experiences that can be enjoyed from anywhere.

Online Painting Classes

The Art Museum and the Arts Council of Princeton have partnered to provide a series of watercolor-painting classes taught by artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo. Participants can join live from their home computers, tablets, or phones. With an emphasis on color mixing and brushwork, each week’s lesson will be inspired by works in the Museum’s collections.

Study the museum’s collections

The encyclopedic collections of the Princeton University Art Museum comprise more than 97,000 objects from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, ranging from ancient to contemporary art. Many of these works are accessible online through the Museum's collections database, and highlights of the collection are also featured in Handbook of the Collections (2013), available at the Museum Store.

Faculty-curated Exhibitions

The Art Museum provides opportunities for faculty to co-curate exhibitions in the galleries. Faculty curators work with the Mellon Curatorial Fellow and other members of the staff to develop exhibition proposals that draw on the faculty member's research interests while maintaining a broader level of appeal for our diverse audiences.

Summer Internship at the Princeton University Art Museum

ndergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for an eight-week summer internship program at the Princeton University Art Museum. The 2021 summer internship program will run from Tuesday, June 8 to Friday, July 30. Undergraduate students majoring in any discipline at any four-year college or university, and graduate students who have completed their first year in an M.A. or Ph.D. program in art history, archaeology, or a related field, are eligible to apply.

Princeton University, School of architecture

The School of Architecture, Princeton’s center for teaching and research in architectural design, history, and theory. Architecture is understood as a cultural practice involving both speculative intelligence and practical know-how.

Architecture Design Studio

A two-semester sequence in which fundamental design skills are taught in the context of the architects wider responsibilities to society, culture and the environment. Students acquire a command of the techniques of design and representation through a series of specific architectural problems of increasing complexity.

Integrated Building Studios

Integrated design studios approach architecture from a synthetic perspective. Considerations of structure, environmental technology, building materials and systems, exterior envelope, and site design are integrated directly into the design process through the participation of technical faculty and outside advisors in critiques and reviews. Projects are developed to a high level of detail.

Structural Design

Analysis and design of structural systems, including frames, arches, plates, and shells. Primarily, it considers reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, and structural steel. Structural behavior is studied and analyzed by means of small-scale models. The design and construction of existing major structures are analyzed in some detail.

Construction and Interpretation

Seminar examines the relation of construction, structure and building services to the production of meaning through a series of case studies of buildings and bridges and as well as general surveys of the work of specific engineers and architects.

Introduction to the Architecture Profession

Explores the professional activities of architects and their responsibilities in society. It examines the relationship of the architect to the building industry; the selection process and the realities of the marketplace; the organization of professional practice and building operations; the use of zoning ordinances, building codes, and standards; contracts, contract documents, and specifications; construction administration; and legal considerations.

Advanced Topics in Modern Architecture

Explores the critical transformation in the relationship between interior and exterior space in modern architecture, which is most evident in domestic space. Domestic space ceases to be simply bounded space in opposition to the outside, whether physical or social. An analysis of modern houses is used as a frame to register contemporary displacements of the relationship between public and private space, instigated by the emerging reality of the technologies of communicaton, including newspaper, telephone, radio, film, and television.

Seminar in History of Photography

The seminar is concerned with the work of a single European or American photographer or with a significant movement in the 20th century.

Student ART Organizations

There are more than 300 student-run organizations across campus that range from a cappella groups to Model Congress. While some groups are deeply rooted in traditions created over a century ago, the University encourages students to create new groups that fit their interests and hobbies.

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ISAP: International Students Assoc. of Princeton

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Southern Society, Princeton

Princeton Studios: Princeton University Film Festival

Songwriters Society, Princeton

Russian Undergraduate Students Association

Motown Sound

Art Collective, Princeton University

Princeton University Famous Graduates

After earning their stories on campus, Princeton’s alumni make their marks on the world.

Among the graduates of our university there are outstanding artist, such as:

John Charles Eaton

John Charles Eaton was an American composer. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Eaton attended Princeton University, where he graduated in 1957 (Morgan 2001). He later lived in Rome (1957–68), returning to Princeton to earn a PhD in 1970 (Anon. & n.d.(c))

P. Adams Sitney

P. Adams Sitney is a historian of American avant-garde cinema. He is known as the author of Visionary Film, one of the first books on the history of experimental film in the United States.

Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr.

Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. From that position, he was one of the most influential forces in the development of popular attitudes toward modern art; for example, his arranging of the blockbuster Van Gogh exhibition of 1935, in the words of author Bernice Kert, was "a precursor to the hold Van Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination."

Gifford Beal

Gifford Beal was an American artist noted for his work as a painter, watercolorist, printmaker and muralist.

Edward Toner Cone

Edward Toner Cone — was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, and philanthropist. Cone was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He studied composition under Roger Sessions at Princeton University, receiving his bachelor's in 1939 (Latin salutatorian and the first Princeton student to submit a musical composition as his senior thesis).

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays.