{"id":104597,"date":"2020-12-30T23:36:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T04:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104597"},"modified":"2020-12-30T23:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T04:36:56","slug":"allentown-art-museum-to-reopen-first-week-of-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104597","title":{"rendered":"Allentown Art Museum to reopen first week of January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Featured Image: Museum at dusk by Matt Wargo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Rembrandt painting will be revealed as planned later in the month<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allentown, PA\u2014<\/strong>With the announcement today by Governor Wolf that special COVID mitigation restrictions put in place on December 12 will expire on Monday, <strong>the Allentown Art Museum confirms that it will reopen to the public on Friday, January 8, 2021<\/strong>. The Museum will be open Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors are encouraged but not required to reserve a timed ticket in advance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AllentownArtMuseum.org\/\">www.AllentownArtMuseum.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Museum also confirms that the much-anticipated exhibition <strong><em>Rembrandt Revealed<\/em><\/strong>, which spotlights the master\u2019s 1632 painting <em>Portrait of a Young Woman<\/em>, <strong>will open in the Museum as planned, to members on Saturday, January 23, and to the public on Sunday, January 24<\/strong>. The painting returns to the Lehigh Valley following conservation in New York that uncovered new information about its creation that inspired worldwide press coverage. <em>Rembrandt Revealed <\/em>will be on view through May 2, after which the painting will travel to Canada for exhibition in a Rembrandt show at the National Gallery in Ottawa before returning to Allentown for a second special exhibition in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Also in January, the Museum will present a week of virtual programing celebrating <strong>Martin Luther King Jr., from January 16 through January 22<\/strong>. Complete details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AllentownArtMuseum.org\/\">www.AllentownArtMuseum.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the doors to the galleries reopen Friday, January 8, <strong>the Museum\u2019s COVID safety precautions <\/strong>will still be in place:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Operating at reduced capacity and limited<\/li>\n<li>Requiring staff and patrons to wear face<\/li>\n<li>Enforcing social<\/li>\n<li>Offering hand-sanitizing stations throughout the<\/li>\n<li>Continuing enhanced cleaning measures throughout the building and daily health screenings for all Museum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe health of our staff, patrons, and the greater Lehigh Valley community remains our top priority,\u201d <strong>says Museum president and CEO Max Weintraub<\/strong>. \u201cWe are grateful for your continued support and trust in us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information and image provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nChris Potash<br \/>\nManager of Marketing and Public Relations<br \/>\nAllentown Art Museum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Image: Museum at dusk by Matt Wargo Rembrandt painting will be revealed as planned later in the month Allentown, PA\u2014With the announcement today by Governor Wolf that special COVID &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Allentown Art Museum to reopen first week of January<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Matt-Wargo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}