Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum initially chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philly. The major gallery building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hillside situated at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval. The gallery provides collections consisting of over 240,000 things including major holdings of European, American and Asian beginning. The numerous classes of artwork consist of sculpture, paints, prints, illustrations, photos, shield, and also decorative arts.

The Philly Gallery of Art carries out a number of annexes including the Rodin Gallery, also situated on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, as well as the Ruth as well as Raymond G. Perelman Structure, which lies nearby simply north of the main building. The Perelman Building, which opened in 2007, houses more than 150,000 prints, drawings and photos, in addition to 30,000 costume as well as fabric pieces, and also over 1,000 contemporary and contemporary layout objects including furnishings, ceramics and also glasswork. The gallery likewise carries out the historical colonial-era residences of Mount Pleasant and also Cedar Grove, both located in Fairmount Park. The main gallery structure and also its annexes are owned by the City of Philadelphia as well as provided by a signed up nonprofit company.

A number of special exhibits are held in the museum each year, including touring exhibits arranged with other museums in the United States and abroad. The attendance number for the museum was 793,000 in 2017, which ranks it amongst the top one hundred most-visited art museums in the world. The museum is also one of the biggest art galleries worldwide based on gallery room.