MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) – Wesleyan University is building a museum for more than 20,000 prints and drawings by artists such as Rembrandt, Goya and Jasper Johns.

The school has started a drive to build the $26 million museum on the Middletown campus. The effort is still in the planning stages and recently received its first major gift, a $500,000 donation from a New York couple with strong ties to the university.

The museum also will house stone, terra-cotta and glass from ancient Greece and Rome and a collection of 17th-century American pewter.

John Paoletti, a professor of art history and director of the proposed museum said it would be both a teaching tool for students and a resource for the community.

“We’ve got some wonderful, wonderful things, but we don’t have adequate places to show them and store them,” he said.