In 2013, according to the latest form 990 the Barnes must file as a nonprofit, it turned about $5.7 million in admission revenue and millions more in contributions. In Philadelphia, the Barnes certainly has been earning revenue. ![]() People who opposed the move to Philadelphia see in the lack of current use a harbinger for an attempt by the Barnes Foundation to rid itself of the one of the few remaining connections to its owner and its past. The murkier question is the property’s future. An arboretum surrounds the buildings, as it has for decades. In addition to the gallery, Barnes’ former residence is now reserved for archives, classrooms for a horticulture program and an office space for Barnes employees. Three years after the Barnes Foundation’s controversial move from Merion to the Parkway, the estate that once held arguably the greatest collection of post-impressionist and early modern art goes largely unused. The gallery was designed by the renowned Paul Phillippe Cret and considered a work of art unto itself, designed specifically for the purpose of holding that priceless art, down to the woodwork and the color of the floors and ceilings. When the Barnes Foundation originally opened in 1925 in Lower Merion, it wasn’t just the art that stood out.
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