Gallery Study Spaces

The Permanent Collection Study Room and Samek Study Gallery exist to provide access to the Samek Art Gallery Permanent Collection, and to support Bucknell curriculum and undergraduate research.

Samek Study Gallery

The Study Gallery consists of display case walls measure 50 linear feet of walls located behind glass display windows on the uphill entrance to the Samek. The space is appropriate primarily for two dimensional work.

Artists recently displayed in the Samek Study Gallery include Louise Bourgeois, Leon Golub, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Morris, and Rosalyn Richards, among others.

The Samek Study Gallery makes accessible works of art from the permanent collection, and occasionally other works of art, for study and to support of curricula. Exhibitions change two to three times a semester. Faculty and students may request works for display or propose exhibitions of works from the collection. Contact the director to discuss this further.

Permanent Collection Study Room

The Study Room is a 17' x 35' designated room for access and study of works of art in the collection. Designed and renovated in 2005-06, it now features archival museum housing units, viewing easels, and study furniture. The Study Room now houses many prints, drawings, photographs, Japanese decorative objects and select other works. Select paintings and sculptures may be viewed here by request.

The Study Room can accommodate an individual researcher up to a seminar class of c. 15 students.

Collection drawings, prints, photographs and selected three dimensional objects (currently Netsuke and other Japanese decorative objects) are easily accessible in the study room.

Reserving the Study Room

To find out more about how to request the Study Room, how the Samek will prepare for your visit, and the rules you will need to follow while using the Study Room, read the Permanent Collection Study Room Guidelines.

If you are interested in accessing the Permanent Collection artist/object files while in the Study Room, please also review the Permanent Collection Artist/Object File Use Guidelines.

You may begin the reservation process by completing the online reservation form.