Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Address: 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, @26th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19130
- Category: Museum
- Prices: Members: Free; Adults: $14, Seniors $12, Students $10
- Phone: (215) 763-8100
- Website: Official Website
- Hours: Tues-Sun 10am-5pm; Friday till 8:45
- Transportation: SEPTA bus routes 7, 32, 38, 43, and 48; Amtrak/NJT 30th Street Station
- Directions: via Google Maps
- Tour Information: Introductory Walks: Ideal for first-time visitors, Introductory Walks provide a broad overview of the Museum's collections. Offered daily at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Friday Evening Tours (Art After 5) These unique guided gallery tours are offered on Friday evenings as part of the Art After 5 program.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art welcomes nearly a million visitors each year, encouraging them to embark upon a walk through time that extends across two millennia and six continents.
In the main building’s sweep of 200 captivating galleries, visitors find many surprises and changing exhibitions. There are striking Renaissance master paintings, elaborately carved stone altarpieces, and entire period rooms and architectural settings from around the world. The American collections range from fine examples of revolutionary-period furniture to the paintings of Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins.
Across from the Museum’s main building and behind an exquisitely preserved Art Deco facade is the newly renovated and expanded Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, the first phase of a major plan to dramatically enhance and modernize the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The Perelman Building is Free until December 31, 2007
Current & Upcoming Events
| thru 04/05 | Frank O. Gehry: Design Process and the Lewis House |
| thru 11/30 | Notations: The Closing Decade |
| thru 09/30 | The Art of Japanese Craft: 1875 to the Present |
| thru 11/01 | Henri Matisse and Modern Art on the French Riviera |
| 01/31 - 04/26 | Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian |
| 02/26 - 05/17 | Cézanne and Beyond |
| 07/07 - 11/01 | Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés |
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