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Board of Trustees approves architect for new and expanded University Art Museum

5/3/19

To showcase Penn State’s growing collection of art and provide space for a range of cultural activities and events, University leaders have proposed the construction of a new freestanding art museum on the University Park campus that would be located in The Arboretum at Penn State. The Penn State Board of Trustees approved the selection of Allied Works as the architect to design the new University Art Museum at its meeting on Friday, May 3.

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Class Gift Campaign celebrates an 'Evening of New BEEginnings'

3/25/19

The 2019 Class Gift Campaign hosted students, faculty and University community members on March 22 at the Hintz Family Alumni Center for an evening of learning and celebration of the 2019 class gift to the University: an Entry Gate to the Pollinators’ Garden at the Arboretum at Penn State.

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Penn State earns 'Bee Campus USA' certification

12/3/18

Penn State has become the 55th educational institution in the nation to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strength of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators.

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Penn's Woods Music Festival returns to its roots for the summer

5/23/18

Penn’s Woods Music Festival orchestra and chamber music performances will be relocated to their original home of Eisenhower Auditorium this summer while the Penn State School of Music’s new recital hall is under construction. The festival kicks off June 13 with the free Music in the Gardens concert at the Arboretum at Penn State, with the festival orchestra and chamber music concerts taking place June 23–30 in Eisenhower.

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'Plastic Entanglements' to open at Palmer Museum of Art

2/9/18

Sixty works exploring the complex story of plastic — from drawings and photographs to video installations and sculptures fabricated from found plastic — will be featured in "Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials," on view at the Palmer Museum of Art, Feb. 13 through June 17.

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Music in the Gardens concert rescheduled for June 9

6/8/16

Due to unfavorable weather conditions, the Music in the Gardens concert originally planned for June 8 at The Arboretum at Penn State has been moved to June 9. The concert opens the 2016 Music at Penn's Woods summer schedule with an evening of music performed outdoors in the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens.

Arboretum tulip display Spring 2016

Arboretum's spectacular tulip display is highlight of the season

4/27/16

With warm, sunny weather coaxing spring flowers out of their winter slumber, more than 30,000 tulips are unfurling their spectacular colors in the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens at The Arboretum at Penn State. A single show-stopping display — more than 27,000 bulbs — is planted in the Arboretum's Joan Milius Smith Esplanade. Peak bloom begins this week and will continue through the first week of May. Visitors are encouraged to bring cameras and smartphones.

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Childhood's Gate Children's Garden opens July 7 at Arboretum

7/3/14

The latest addition to The Arboretum at Penn State opened to the public on Monday, July 7 -- the Childhood's Gate Children's Garden. A garden for children and anyone who is young at heart, Childhood's Gate is a unique space for exploring nature, fostering wonder and celebrating the plants, animals and geography of central Pennsylvania.

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