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Appointments may now be made by phone, but the number of visitors is controlled by the hour so the galleries are not too crowded. Barnes expressed in his will the desire to keep the collection "exactly where it is."{{cn}}
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Barnes & his wife Laura purchased an 18th century estate in [[West Pikeland Township, Pennsylvania]], and named it “Ker-Feal” ([[Breton language|Breton]] for “House of Fidèle”) after their favorite dog. Barnes had brought the dog home from Brittany during an art-buying trip to France.<ref>Personalpedia, "[http://personalpedia.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/bertrand-russell/ Bertrand Russell & Albert Barnes]"; accessed 2010.08.17.</ref> Barnes died on July 24, 1951, in an automobile crash,<ref name = "ArtStealRev">GlobalShift, "[http://www.globalshift.org/tag/albert-barnes/ The Art of the Steal Paints an Ugly Picture [DVD Review]]"; accessed 2010.08.17.</ref> apparently caused by his disdain for stop signs
Having watched the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]] “legally steal” the collection of his late lawyer, John Johnson, Barnes set out to prevent the same from happening to his collection. His will and other documents provide that the [[Barnes Foundation]] was to remain an educational institution, open to the public only two to three days a week. His art collection, furthermore, could never be loaned or sold; it was to stay on the walls of the foundation—in the exact places he specified—forever.<ref name = "ArtStealRev" />
==Future move to Philadelphia==
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