Museum & Gallery at Bob Jones University

Frommer's Review

This nondenominational Christian liberal-arts institution is often denounced in the national media as a center of right-wing extremism. Remember those headlines when George W. Bush was seeking the presidential nomination of his party and spoke at this forum? Founded in 1927 by Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., the school emphasizes "Christianity with culture." The Gallery of Sacred Art, begun in 1951, contains 30 rooms displaying representative works of European religious painting from the 14th through 19th centuries, including works by such masters as Botticelli, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Murillo, Gerard David, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and Cranach. The museum also houses collections of Russian icons, Renaissance furniture, and vestments made for the Imperial Chapel in Vienna, as well as the Bowen Bible Lands Collection of items that are relevant to biblical times.

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