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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 ...
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.
The Rosenbach is a Philadelphia museum and library located within two 19th-century townhouses. Established as a testamentary gift in 1954. Established as a testamentary gift in 1954. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The historic houses contain the donated collections of Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach and his brother Philip H. Rosenbach.
This is a list of public artworks in Philadelphia. The Association for Public Art estimates the city has hundreds of public artworks; [ 1 ] the Smithsonian lists more than 700. [ 2 ] Since 1959 nearly 400 works of public art have been created as part of the city's Percent for Art program, the first such program in the U.S. [ 3 ]
May 11, 1976 (North Philadelphia Eastern banks of the Schuylkill River: Fairmount Park: First municipal waterworks in the United States. Designed in 1812 by Frederick Graff and built between 1819 and 1822, it operated until 1909.
Woodmere Art Museum, located in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has a collection of paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs focusing on artists from the Delaware Valley and includes works by Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Severo Antonelli, Jasper Francis Cropsey (The Spirit of Peace), Joan Wadleigh Curran, Daniel Garber, Edward Moran, Violet Oakley, Herbert Pullinger ...
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [4] It was founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. [1] The main museum building was completed in 1928 [ 8 ] on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval . [ 2 ]