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This list of museums in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions, including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses, that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for ...
Prior to the Fashion District Philadelphia, the space originally opened in 1977 as The Gallery. It was later expanded with the construction of The Gallery II in the early 1980s. PREIT acquired The Gallery in April 2003 from The Rouse Company and Gallery II in the third fiscal quarter of 2004 from the state's Public School Employees' Retirement ...
Memorial Hall is a Beaux-Arts style building in the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, it is the only major structure from that exhibition to survive. It subsequently housed the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia Museum of ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art at 2600 Benjamin Franklin Franklin Institute at 222 N. 20th Street National Constitution Center at Independence National Historical Park at 143 S. 3rd Street Eastern State Penitentiary at 2027 Fairmount Avenue Independence Seaport Museum at Penn's Landing Museum of the American Revolution at 101 South Third Street
Philadelphia Museum of Art (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Art museums and galleries in Philadelphia" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
They comprise the masterpieces of Stuart, Sully, Allston, West, and others of our early artists, the Gilpin gallery, fine marbles, and facsimiles of famous statues, as well as a magnificent gallery from the antique. [22] The building is now considered one of the most notable buildings in Philadelphia and one of
The Sedgwick Theater is a historic American theater in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1928 and designed by architect William Harold Lee. It is one of the remaining 20 Philadelphia theaters as of 2006 which he designed; nine have been demolished. Only two in Philadelphia are open – The Ace Theater ...
When it opened as the Philadelphia Opera House in 1908, it was the largest theater of its kind in the world, seating more than 4,000 people. The opera house officially opened on November 17, 1908, with a production of Georges Bizet's Carmen for the opening of the POC's first season.