The Renaissance Connection

Welcome to The Renaissance Connection, the Allentown Art Museum's interactive educational web site. With the simple click of a mouse button, teachers, students, and art enthusiasts can travel 500 years into the past to discover many Renaissance innovations revealed through the Museum's Samuel H. Kress Collection of European art.
The site combines interactive time lines, historical maps, humorous activities, and interdisciplinary lesson plans, giving you the opportunity to become a Patron of the Arts, Design Your Own Innovation, and investigate Renaissance artworks in depth to discover how past innovations inform life today. Time travel has never been so easy, or so imaginative!