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Land Transfer Gives $100M Museum New Address

PHILADELPHIA-Relocation of the Barnes art collection takes another step forward as Mayor Street transfers ownership of the juvenile detention center to the Barnes Foundation.

By Marita Thomas | Updated on September 06, 2007

PHILADELPHIA-Mayor John Street has officially transferred ownership of the Philadelphia Youth Study Center at 20th Street on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the Barnes Foundation. At the same time, he revealed plans to move the existing juvenile detention center, which is currently occupied, to the East Falls neighborhood.

The transfer represents one more step in a protracted and contentious effort to bring the Barnes’ art collection from suburban Lower Merion to the city’s “museum mile” that stretches from Logan Square to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The collection, valued at as much as $35 billion, is now housed in a building constructed by Albert Barnes specifically to display the collection, not as a museum, but as an educational venue.

Prior to his death, Barnes hobbled the foundation with numerous covenants that limited access, visitor fees and the ability to raise funds. They also forbid rearrangement of the works as well as any relocation. The covenants combined with mismanagement by an earlier foundation board put the foundation on the brink of bankruptcy.

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