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Princeton
Excursion
Princeton
HalfDay
Excursion
All groups are escortedbythePLUS staff
Princeton University
Art Museum
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The Princeton University Art
Museum is the Princeton
University’s gallery of art,
located in Princeton, New
Jersey. Founded in 1882, it now
houses over 72,000 works of
art that range from antiquity
to the contemporary period.
The Princeton University Art
Museum dedicates itself to
supporting and enhancing the
university’s goals of teaching,
research, and service in fields
of art and culture,
as well as to serving regional
communities and visitors
from around the world. Its
collections concentrate on the
Mediterranean region,Western
Europe, China, the United States,
and Latin America.
Lake
Carnegie
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Lake Carnegie is a reservoir
that is formed from a dam
on the Millstone River, in the
far northeastern corner of
Princeton, New Jersey.
Lake Carnegie was the gift of
steel magnate Andrew Carnegie,
who gave the funds at the
behest of Howard Russell Butler,
Class of 1876, a portrait painter
for whom Carnegie sat in 1902.
The lake, which
is privately owned, is used
by the university’s rowing team.
It is, however, available for public
use for activities such as ice
skating, fishing and picnicking.
Princeton
University
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Princeton University is a private
Ivy League research university
in Princeton, New Jersey.
Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth
as the College of New Jersey,
Princeton was the fourth
chartered institution of higher
education in the American
colonies and thus one of
the nine Colonial Colleges
established before the American
Revolution. The institution
moved to Newark in 1747, then
to the current site nine years
later, where it was renamed
Princeton University in 1896.
Take a walking tour of the
charming campus and learn
about the famous students and
residents that help to make
Princeton the most treasured
Ivy League town in America.
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time: 17,00
Outside
the College
time: 21,30
Princeton
University (subject to
change) time: 17,30
Princeton
University (subject to
change) time: 21,00
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