The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, known colloquially as the Benton, is an art museum at Pomona College in Claremont, California. It was completed in 2020, replacing the Montgomery Art Gallery, which had been home to the Pomona College Museum of Art (PCMA) since 1958. It houses a collection of approximately 19,000 items, including Italian Renaissance panel paintings, indigenous American art and artifacts, and American and European prints, drawings, and photographs. The museum is free to the public.
The museum's courtyard, viewed from College Avenue
Montgomery Art Gallery building in 2023
The museum's lobby (view as a 360° interactive panorama)
Collections vault at the museum
Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions.
An exterior view of the college in 1907, featuring its two earliest buildings: Sumner Hall (right) and Holmes Hall (left)
U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Pomona in 1903
Reserve Officers' Training Corps soldiers at Pomona in 1942
Men protesting the opening of Frary Dining Hall to women in 1957
