Impressions: Stories Behind the Collection

Celebrating Our Past While Looking to the Future

On October 24, 1975, the former Pasadena Art Museum announced its name change to the Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, formalizing the foundation of a new museum in Southern California that brought together Norton Simon’s internationally renowned collections of European and Asian art with the important holdings of European and American modernism held by the Pasadena Art Museum. Much has changed in the 50 years since the Norton Simon Museum’s creation.