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Goode Works on Paper Center
Comprising one-third of the Chrysler Museum's permanent collection, the Goode Works on Paper Center houses nearly 10,000 photographs, drawings, prints, and other works on paper. As this collection continues to grow, ensuring its long-term preservation and increasing access to these astonishing works remain among our highest priorities. This dedicated space contains a state-of-the-art storage facility for the collection as well as a Study Room where visitors can engage with these objects firsthand.
The entrance to the Goode Works on Paper Center’s Study Room is located in the McKinnon Galleries of Modern and Contemporary Art on the Museum’s second floor.
Appointments to study works on paper from the Museum’s collection are overseen by the Goode Works on Paper Center Coordinator. Completing the form below will provide the Center’s coordinator with the necessary information to best guide you in planning your visit.
Instructors or group leaders that plan to utilize the Study Room for object-based teaching and learning may make an appointment for their group using this form. The expectation is that instructors will address the requested objects either through a general lecture, discussion, or analysis of individual works; alternatively, students could engage in close looking through sketching, presentations, etc.
Although the Goode Works on Paper Center Coordinator is available to answer questions, they do not give lectures or presentations. The Coordinator can help arrange for a presentation from Museum Staff or Docents, depending on availability.
Appointment requests must be made at least two (2) weeks in advance.
Study Room Guidelines
1. Everything is at the discretion of the Goode Works on Paper Center Coordinator. While the coordinator is available to answer questions, they do not give lectures or presentations.
2. Visitors are required to leave all coats, large bags, backpacks, packages, umbrellas, etc. at the Museum’s complimentary lockers. Small purses or bags may be brought into the Study Room.
3. No food, beverages, or chewing gum is permitted in the study room.
4. Pens and other colored drawing materials are not permitted in the Study Room. Only graphite pencils may be used.
5. Laptops are allowed. Guest WIFI is available.
6. Photography of the materials is permitted without the use of a flash. Please note, for permission to publish any images taken, or to request images of works of art in the Museum’s collection for publication, click here.
7. All cell phones, tablets, and laptops must be silenced in the Study Room.
8. Visitors who will be handling works of art, at the discretion of the Coordinator, must have clean hands before working in the Study Room. They may wash their hands in the restrooms at the entrance of the Museum’s Modern and Contemporary Galleries, near Gallery 223.
9. Requested items are brought to the Center’s Study Room by the Center’s coordinator prior to the appointment time. For individual visitors, the coordinator will demonstrate proper handling guidelines and present the objects to the visitor for viewing one box/group at a time. During group appointments, there will be no handling of the objects under any circumstances.
10. The coordinator cannot leave the Study Room during an appointment; therefore, additional works cannot be retrieved. All requests must be made in advance, or a second appointment may be scheduled for a later date.
11. Visitors are not permitted to enter the Center’s storage areas, or to open any of the storage cabinets in the Center’s Study Room.
12. Leaning on the display ledges or sitting on the tables in the Study Room is strictly prohibited.
13. The Study Room’s coordinator is required to check visitors’ property before their departure.
