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This list of museums in 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 public viewing.
The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA) is an art museum with five locations in southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. It is headquartered at Saint Francis University in Loretto , where it was founded in 1976.
The Fisher Fine Arts Library was the primary library of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 1891 to 1962. The red sandstone , brick -and- terra-cotta Venetian Gothic giant, part fortress and part cathedral, was designed by Philadelphia architect Frank Furness (1839–1912).
Listed here are just the gallery shows which were accompanied by a catalogue, in addition to all solo shows in public institutions. [22] 1989: Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York, and Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 1994: Peter Hujar: A Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands, and
The triangular-shaped building that houses the gallery was transferred to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in 1990 by the Pittsburgh Port Authority Transit, for the sum of $1 per year. [8] The Wood Street Galleries were established two years later in 1992. [8] This gallery focuses on contemporary and technological art. [9]
Pont Reading is a historic, American home that is located in the Ardmore section of Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was the residence of shipbuilder and architect, Joshua Humphreys who lived there his entire life. Pont Reading was named after his family's homestead, Reading Pont in Wales.
Allentown Art Museum was founded originally as Allentown Art Gallery and organized by Walter Emerson Baum. It opened in Allentown's Hunsicker School on March 17, 1934. With 70 canvases by local Pennsylvania impressionist artists on display, the gallery attracted major attention from local and regional art communities.
The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American Impressionism, Allentown Art Museum September 16- November 20, 1983; and traveling to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., December 14, 1984- February 10, 1985; The Westmoreland County Museum of Art, March 2- May 5, 1985; and to the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford ...