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2. Philadelphia Museum of Art - Wikipedia

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   The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) 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 ] The museum administers collections containing over ...

3. Peale's Philadelphia Museum - Wikipedia

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   The Philadelphia Museum was an early museum in Philadelphia started by the painter Charles Willson Peale and continued by his family. It was opened in 1784 as an art museum and added a natural history collection in 1786. The exhibits included the first nearly complete skeleton of the mastodon, a relative of the mammoth. Peale died in 1827 and ...

4. Barnes Foundation - Wikipedia

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   The Barnes Foundation is an art collection and educational institution promoting the appreciation of art and horticulture. Originally in Merion, the art collection moved in 2012 to a new building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The arboretum of the Barnes Foundation remains in Merion, where it has been proposed that ...

5. Diana (Saint-Gaudens) - Wikipedia

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   Location. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Diana – also known as Diana of the Tower – is an iconic statue by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, representing the goddess Diana. Once a major artistic feature of New York City, the second version stood atop the tower of Madison Square Garden from 1893 to 1925.

6. List of museums in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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   Focuses on Swedish contributions to history, art, architecture, music, science and technology. Arthur Ross Gallery. West Philadelphia. Art. Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania. Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Center City. Art. Museum of American fine and decorative arts, exhibits about architecture and design history.

7. Perelman Building - Wikipedia

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   73001662 [1] Added to NRHP. July 2, 1973. The Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building —originally the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company Building —is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art containing exhibition galleries, offices, conservation labs, and the museum library. It is an Art Deco building that features cathedral-like ...

8. List of artists in the Philadelphia Museum of Art handbook of ...

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   In the following list, the artist's name is followed by the location of one of their works and its page number in the guide. For artists with more than one work in the collection, or for works by artists not listed here, see the Philadelphia Museum of Art website or the corresponding Wikimedia Commons category. Of artists listed, only 9 are women.

9. Eakins Oval - Wikipedia

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   Eakins Oval is a traffic circle in Philadelphia. It forms the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway just in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with a central array of fountains and monuments, and a network of pedestrian walkways. This loop of road usually carries a large volume of traffic, as it connects the core of the city with ...