Exhibition admission of $7 for non-members (plus museum admission) includes both The Green House and Lehigh Valley Going Green.

The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design - Kress Gallery
This ground-breaking exhibition explores the dynamic field of green residential design as it reaches a turning point of international acceptance by both home builders and the general public. "The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design" explores exciting trends in green technology, materials and design while probing such key questions as: What makes a house green? Is a green house healthier, safer and more comfortable? Is it aesthetically appealing?

Featuring 11 models, drawings and photographs of 21 contemporary residences, the exhibition highlights outstanding examples of sustainable and aesthetically compelling designs geared toward specific locales such as city, suburb, waterside, mountainside, tropics, desert and a residence that would work in any locale. In these examples, cutting-edge architects and builders around the world have applied green principles to the design and construction of homes that demonstrate the emerging and dynamic collaboration between stylish architecture, interior design and environmental responsibility.

Lehigh Valley Going Green - Rodale Gallery
In the last two decades, the concepts of “green” and “sustainability” have gained importance in everyday life and are being explored in a variety of innovative ways by architects and builders nationally and internationally. This exhibition, prepared with the assistance of Artefact, Inc., a local company that focuses on sustainable planning and design, highlights two dozen projects developed by various companies, architects and builders in the Lehigh Valley, projects either now underway or recently completed. The exhibition showcases how these projects are using the ideas of sustainability to create buildings that will provide elegant and efficient living and work spaces that conform to green principles and the concept of environmental concern.

"The Allentown Art Museum is dedicated to stimulating active exploration of the arts and developing new audiences for the arts within the Lehigh Valley community and beyond. Through the central activities of collection, preservation, study, exhibition, and interpretation of important works of visual art, the Allentown Art Museum fosters greater understanding of artists and their work."
--Mission statement of the Allentown Art Museum (revised and adopted 1998).

The Museum's collection of 11,294 works of art offers our regional community the opportunity to experience more than 700 years of Western cultural heritage, as well as a wide range of ethnically diverse cultures, in an accessible and visitor-friendly environment. The Museum's art history library contains 15,000 titles and 65 current periodicals. These are extraordinary treasures for a community the size of the Lehigh Valley, and are recognized and utilized as such by many of its citizens.