Glencairn Museum

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Glencairn Museum, located on 1001 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, is a Swedenborgian-affiliated museum on the National Registry of Historic Places. It houses a collection of about 8,000 mostly religious artwork from many cultures as diverse as ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek and Roman, medieval Christian, Islamic, Asian, and Native American. It consists of more than 100 rooms on 11 floors, adjacent to the historic Bryn Athyn Cathedral.

The castle-like building was the former house of millionare attorney Raymond Pitcairn and his wife, Mildred Glenn. The name of the museum is a combined form of Richard's last name and Mildred's maiden name. Pitcairn, a member of the New Chuch himself, had no formal training in architecture and buit it in the Romanesque style between 1928 and 1939. After Mildred's death in 1979 (Richard had previously died in 1966) the house was given to the Swedenborgians to use.

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