In honor of Anne d'Harnoncourt.
Admission to the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be free on Saturday in honor of director Anne d'Harnoncourt, who died June 1, 2008.
The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (The new timed-ticket "Late Renoir" exhibition is not included with free admission.)
"Anne d'Harnoncourt, my predecessor, passed away two years ago this month," said Timothy Rub, the museum's director and chief executive. "To honor her memory and all that she did for this institution and the community it serves, we encourage our visitors to come and discover the collections."
D'Harnoncourt began her career at the museum as a curatorial assistant in the department of painting and sculpture in 1967. She served as director beginning in 1982, and as both director and chief executive officer of the museum from 1997 until her death.
-- By Stephan Salisbury (Inquirer Culture Writer)