Benton Museum of Art
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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
Claremont, California
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Claremont is a suburban city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, 30 miles (48 km) east of Los Angeles. It lies in the eastern portion of the county, in Pomona Valley, at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 34,926, and in 2020 the population was 37,266.
Image: Verbal Building and intersection, Claremont, California (cropped)
Image: Carnegie Library, Claremont CA
Image: Bridges Hall of Music Exterior, Pomona College
Image: Bell Tower, Vivian Webb Chapel (cropped)