In this issue of Glencairn Museum News, we explore a historic collection of photographs featuring Glencairn during its time as the home of the Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn family. This visual essay provides a backward glimpse of both the interior and exterior of Glencairn “as it was.”

In this issue of Glencairn Museum News, Met Cloisters curator Julia Perratore takes us on a journey to the Carrière du Roy (Quarry of the King), an historic quarry located in southern France.

This late antique (5th century CE) stone sarcophagus at Glencairn Museum offers valuable insights into changing societal values. Dr. Wendy Closterman, Associate Curator at Glencairn, has undertaken an ambitious a research trip to France to delve into its origins and history.

This article explores the artistic contributions of Benjamin Augustus Tweedale (1868–1957), an accomplished stone carver whose craftsmanship left an indelible imprint on both Glencairn and Bryn Athyn Cathedral.

The “Glencairn Girls” were employed by the Pitcairn family in Glencairn from 1939 to 1979. In this issue of Glencairn Museum News we explore what life was like for the Glencairn Girls—in their own words.

In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Mary Prevo explores a 13th-century panel of stained glass depicting Christ entrusting Mary's soul to the archangels Michael and Gabriel after her death.

In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, associate curator in the Egyptian Section at Penn Museum, explores the history of funerary spells in ancient Egypt. The essay features a fragment of a decorated mummy bandage in the Glencairn collection, inscribed with spells from the Book of the Dead.

In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Jack Hinton, Henry P. McIlhenny Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, relates the remarkable story of Glencairn’s three Raphael tapestries, their creation, and significance.

Iñigo Salto Santamaría is a doctoral candidate in art history at the Technical University of Berlin. In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, he positions Glencairn and its collections within the context of European and American museums of medieval art in the 1930s—the decade when Glencairn was completed.

For 86 years, the Bryn Athyn community has been attending and participating in the Glencairn Christmas Sing. In this issue of Glencairn Museum News we explore the beginning and early years of this unique community tradition.