Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Explore the Museum's extensive collection of Asian delights, including paintings, ceramics, sculpture, and decorative arts from Japan, China, and Korea.

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

University of Pennsylvania and Temple University graduate students, and members of the Philadelphia Museum of Art staff, offer a series of informal 45-minute gallery lectures focusing on the Museum's rich resources in each of their respective areas of study. This program gives visitors an in-depth look at individual masterpieces and an opportunity for discussion.

Learn More >>

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Explore the role of nudity as costume in several of the Museum's masterpieces.

 

Explore the art of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist eras and learn about the artists that defined and influenced the movement, including masters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Georges Seurat.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Discover the Museum’s fascinating collection of arms and armor, including plate and mail armor, swords, daggers, shields, crossbows, and equestrian equipment.

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

Location: Director’s Office, next to Gallery 50 (Director’s Gallery)

To make an appointment: visit the Megawords installation, next to Gallery 48 (South Auditorium Gallery), or email.

View Zoe's calendar >>

Visitors are invited to speak with Zoe Strauss in an office she has decorated with paintings from the Museum’s collection.

 

This tour focuses on the Museum's extraordinary collection of American art, including Colonial and Federalist-era paintings, furniture, and decorative arts as well as treasures of rural Pennsylvania.

 

January 20 – March 23, 2012

3:30 - 4:45 p.m.

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $100, Non-members $120

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
• Children ages 5–7
• Children ages 8–12

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3 NJ or PA hours
Program begins in the Seminar Room
$42 public; $34 members

Van Gogh Up Close presents more than forty works by Vincent van Gogh—never before seen together—that changed the course of modern painting. Made between 1886 and 1890 in Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy, and Auvers, they bring familiar subjects such as landscape elements, still-lifes, and flowers into the extreme foreground of the composition or focus on them in unprecedented ways. Join us for an evening preview of this exhibition and lecture by the exhibition curator. Participants will receive Van Gogh preparatory materials for classroom use.

 

Enjoy a night dedicated to Philadelphia music with celebrated DJ Cosmo Baker, who blends hip-hop, disco, rock, funk, and reggae while staying true to his Philadelphia roots. Now based in Brooklyn, he helped found The Rub, an internationally known DJ/remix collective.

 

Discover a variety of styles and techniques in the Museum's superb collection of nineteenth-century art.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Discover exciting, innovative, and sometimes controversial works of art created in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

 

Collection Tour

 

Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
OR Saturdays: February 4 and 18, 10:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$25 ($20 members)
To purchase tickets for the full course [$100 ($80 Members)], please call the Ticket Center at 215-235-7469 between 9AM and 5PM, Monday - Friday.

Lecturer: Catherine Hahn, Ph.D. candidate, Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Have you ever wondered why the art of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists is so universally revered? Why are Monet, Renoir, and van Gogh, among others, household names? This course examines some of the greatest treasures of late nineteenth-century art so that we can come to terms with what made both styles so revolutionary.

• Lecture 1: What Is Impressionism? Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas
• Lecture 2: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet
• Lecture 3: Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, and Mary Cassatt
• Lecture 4: Vincent van Gogh and Post-Impressionism

 

From medieval architecture to rare treasures from various parts of Asia, this tour promises to stir the imagination.

 

January 21 – March 24, 2012

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
  Children ages 5–6
  10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
• Children ages 7–8
  Children ages 9–12
  10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Learn More >>

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Explore light and shadow in paintings and enlightenment in Asian Art.

 

Take an "inside" look at paintings, furniture, sculpture, block-printed wallpapers, ceramics, and more representing a uniquely European aesthetic.

 

This tour focuses on the Museum's extraordinary collection of American art, including Colonial and Federalist-era paintings, furniture, and decorative arts as well as treasures of rural Pennsylvania.

 

January 21 – March 24, 2012

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
  Children ages 5–6
  10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
• Children ages 7–8
  Children ages 9–12
  10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Learn More >>

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
OR Saturdays: February 4 and 18, 1:30-3:45 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$25 ($20 members)
To purchase tickets for the full course [$100 ($80 Members)], please call the Ticket Center at 215-235-7469 between 9AM and 5PM, Monday - Friday.

Lecturer: Elizabeth A. Anderson, independent art historian
The story of Renaissance art outside Italy is the story of the meeting of two worlds: revived classical antiquity and a still-vigorous medieval culture in Northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula. This meeting gives the art of the various regions its complexity and absorbing interest.

• Lecture 1: What Is (What Do We Mean by) the “Northern” Renaissance?
• Lecture 2: Masters of Fifteenth-Century Flemish Painting
• Lecture 3: The Flemish Influence Farther North: Swiss, German, English Art
• Lecture 4: The Flemish Influence in Spain and Portugal

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

With sculptures, reliquaries, stained glass, and objects of architectural interest, this tour examines the Museum's vast collection of treasures from the Middle Ages.

 

Discover exciting, innovative, and sometimes controversial works of art created in the 20th and 21st centuries.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Location: Student Lunch Room, ground floor

Let your creativity soar at the Family Studio! The Museum’s art studios become a fun family destination where people of all ages can create, learn, and have fun together. Projects explore art on view in the Museum—come back again and again to discover the whole collection.

Family Studio is generously supported by the Joseph F. McCrindle Art Education Fund at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

 

Take an "inside" look at paintings, furniture, sculpture, block-printed wallpapers, ceramics, and more representing a uniquely European aesthetic.

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

This tour focuses on the Museum's extraordinary collection of American art, including Colonial and Federalist-era paintings, furniture, and decorative arts as well as treasures of rural Pennsylvania.

 

Explore the exquisite sculpture from 19th- and 20th-Century France.

 

Tours gather in the Perelman Lobby

Resplendent with multicolored and gilded ornaments, and animated with sculptures carved in limestone and cast in terracotta and metal, the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building is the most richly embellished example of Art Deco architecture to be erected in Philadelphia in the 1920s. Come discover it all in this fascinating tour!

 

Explore the art of the Impressionist era, learn about the artists that defined and influenced the movement, and see how their work inspired the masterpieces of modern and contemporary art that would follow.

 

Meet at the West Information Desk.
Please note: Tours are subject to change.

Foreign language tours may focus on particular aspects of the collections, such as an artist, a period, a region, or a genre, or offer a general overview of the entire Museum.

 

Location: Director’s Office, next to Gallery 50 (Director’s Gallery)

To make an appointment: visit the Megawords installation, next to Gallery 48 (South Auditorium Gallery), or email.

View Zoe's calendar >>

Visitors are invited to speak with Zoe Strauss in an office she has decorated with paintings from the Museum’s collection.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Perfect for the first-time visitor, this tour provides an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

Take an "inside" look at paintings, furniture, sculpture, block-printed wallpapers, ceramics, and more representing a uniquely European aesthetic.

 

Location: Van Pelt Auditorium

Take in a screening of films curated by Megawords in collaboration with Temple University Urban Archives. All films are drawn from the Urban Archives’ television news collection and are loosely inspired by the work of Zoe Strauss, Megawords and the PMA itself. The pieces explore everyday Philadelphians, their challenges, rituals, celebrations, and public spaces.

“Assignment: 1747 Randolph Street” (Part 1) WPVI Public Affairs- 1966 (25:00)- The first half of a sometimes challenging 1966 documentary about poverty in North Philadelphia. The documentary focuses specifically on the Ludlow neighborhood, the scene of a brutal crime a year before and eventual target for reform by civic organizations and politicians. Vivid shots of neighborhood conditions are combined with interviews with a cross section of community leaders, politicians and residents.

“North Philadelphia Slums” KYW News- March 15, 1967 (2:24)- A camera sits in a car driving through North Philadelphia gazing at its bars and residents. Sometimes they look back, sometimes they hide their faces.

“Chinese New Year” KYW News- 1965 (5:37)- Black and white silent footage of the performers and audience in Chinatown’s 1965 New Year celebration.

“Ninth Street Merchants” KYW News- April 7, 1966 (5:28)- Black and white silent footage of the vendors and shoppers that made up Ninth Street in 1966.

“Graffiti and Wall Mural” WPVI Public Affairs- 1972 (12:00)- Vintage shots of a graffiti covered El ride, artist Sam Maitin debating with South Philadelphia neighbors as he paints a mural on the Fleisher Art Memorial, and street interviews with Philadelphians about art and graffiti. A quirky, fun piece about the politics and opinions on graffiti and murals in the city.

“Last game at Connie Mack stadium” KYW News- October 2, 1970 (8:48)- Color footage of the Phillies-Expos game morphs into footage of the confusion, chaos and detritus surrounding the last game at Connie Mack Stadium (Shibe Park). Philadelphians “celebrate” the end of the institution in their own unique way.

“Mummers (1953) & Mummers (1966)” KYW News - (5:40)- Black and white silent footage of one of Philadelphia’s most distinct celebrations. Well composed, beautiful shots of audiences and performers just south of City Hall, 13 years apart.

“Be-In” (excerpts) KYW News- April 17, 1967 (2:30)- Black and white silent footage of now infamous Ira Einhorn’s first “Be-In” in Fairmount Park in 1967. Footage of some of the estimated 2,000 people gathered near Strawberry Mansion as they mill about and play music.

“Hippies” KYW News- April 12, 1968 (4:37)- A news story on hippies in one of their most popular spaces to congregate in the 1960s, Rittenhouse Square. Hippies and residents alike perform for the camera and make the anchor’s job difficult as he tries to report on their future in the park.

“Sit-In” (excerpts) KYW News- March 11, 1965 (3:00)- Students from Temple University and University of Pennsylvania stage a sit-in, inside and outside the offices of U.S. Attorney General Drew J. T. O’Keefe in the Ninth and Market federal building. They were doing so to protest the “treatment of African-Americans conducting right-to-vote demonstrations in Selma, Alabama.”

“Art Museum” KYW News- September 15, 1967 (6:00)- Silent black and white footage of some of the pieces and reactions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s popular but polarizing “American Sculpture of the Sixties”. This clip shows several of the 130 pieces from 80 artists in the playful 1967 exhibition.

“Blimp Visits City” WFIL News- November 23, 1948 (1:18)- Very short but distinct vantage of Philadelphia through a 1948 Goodyear Blimp visit to our city. The camera treats the forms of the city below as abstractions.

“City Snow” KYW News- November 30, 1967 (1:30) - Short black and white footage of center city braving its way through a 1967 snow storm.

“Visions of A New Day: Bodegas ‘Mom and Pop Stores’” WPVI Public Affairs- March 18, 1976 (10:00)- Visions of a New Day highlights an integral part of Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican neighborhoods, the bodega (corner store). We’re taken through the streets and inside homes and stores during interviews with bodega owners and shoppers.

“Puerto Rican Drill Team” (excerpts) WPVI Public Affairs- 1970s (5:28) Documentary on the Puerto Rican Drill Team “Los Conquistadors” based around El Centro De Oro in North Philadelphia. The children of the drill team take over a small North Philadelphia Street when practicing their drills.

 

From medieval architecture to rare treasures from various parts of Asia, this tour promises to stir the imagination.

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Learn More >>

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

Explore the history of the altar and the common structures and visual motifs among them.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

Join your guide to discuss the backgrounds and breakthrough moments of 19th and 20th century artists.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Learn More >>

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Learn More >>

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

University of Pennsylvania and Temple University graduate students, and members of the Philadelphia Museum of Art staff, offer a series of informal 45-minute gallery lectures focusing on the Museum's rich resources in each of their respective areas of study. This program gives visitors an in-depth look at individual masterpieces and an opportunity for discussion.

Learn More >>

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Learn More >>

 

Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
OR Saturdays: February 4 and 18, 10:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$25 ($20 members)
To purchase tickets for the full course [$100 ($80 Members)], please call the Ticket Center at 215-235-7469 between 9AM and 5PM, Monday - Friday.

Lecturer: Catherine Hahn, Ph.D. candidate, Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Have you ever wondered why the art of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists is so universally revered? Why are Monet, Renoir, and van Gogh, among others, household names? This course examines some of the greatest treasures of late nineteenth-century art so that we can come to terms with what made both styles so revolutionary.

• Lecture 1: What Is Impressionism? Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas
• Lecture 2: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet
• Lecture 3: Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, and Mary Cassatt
• Lecture 4: Vincent van Gogh and Post-Impressionism

 

Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
OR Saturdays: February 4 and 18, 1:30-3:45 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$25 ($20 members)
To purchase tickets for the full course [$100 ($80 Members)], please call the Ticket Center at 215-235-7469 between 9AM and 5PM, Monday - Friday.

Lecturer: Elizabeth A. Anderson, independent art historian
The story of Renaissance art outside Italy is the story of the meeting of two worlds: revived classical antiquity and a still-vigorous medieval culture in Northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula. This meeting gives the art of the various regions its complexity and absorbing interest.

• Lecture 1: What Is (What Do We Mean by) the “Northern” Renaissance?
• Lecture 2: Masters of Fifteenth-Century Flemish Painting
• Lecture 3: The Flemish Influence Farther North: Swiss, German, English Art
• Lecture 4: The Flemish Influence in Spain and Portugal

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

University of Pennsylvania and Temple University graduate students, and members of the Philadelphia Museum of Art staff, offer a series of informal 45-minute gallery lectures focusing on the Museum's rich resources in each of their respective areas of study. This program gives visitors an in-depth look at individual masterpieces and an opportunity for discussion.

Learn More >>

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Location: Director’s Office, next to Gallery 50 (Director’s Gallery)

To make an appointment: visit the Megawords installation, next to Gallery 48 (South Auditorium Gallery), or email.

View Zoe's calendar >>

Visitors are invited to speak with Zoe Strauss in an office she has decorated with paintings from the Museum’s collection.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

From tea utensils to ceramic dishes, we’ll explore the ritual and the symbolism of the tea ceremony which has had a profound influence on Japanese art and culture.

 

January 20 – March 23, 2012

3:30 - 4:45 p.m.

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $100, Non-members $120

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
• Children ages 5–7
• Children ages 8–12

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Saxophonist/composer Marco Pignataro is a member of the Eddie Gomez Quintet and the leader of the Marco Pignataro Jazzet. He has performed with Danilo Pérez, Arturo Sandoval, and Paquito D’Rivera, among others. With Pérez, he leads the Berklee Global Jazz Institute at Berklee College of Music, Boston.

 

Granite Hill Restaurant
$45 per person, plus tax & gratuity.
Members receive a 10% discount.

Celebrate Cupid with your significant other at Granite Hill. Indulge in Executive Chef Gerald Drummond’s prix fixe menu with your sweetheart while sipping on a complimentary glass of sparkling wine.

To make reservations, please call (215) 684-7990 or visit Open Table.

 

This tour focuses on the Museum's extraordinary collection of American art, including Colonial and Federalist-era paintings, furniture, and decorative arts as well as treasures of rural Pennsylvania.

 

Cezanne: The Father of Us All

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

This tour focuses on the Museum's extraordinary collection of American art, including Colonial and Federalist-era paintings, furniture, and decorative arts as well as treasures of rural Pennsylvania.

 

Discover paintings from this exciting and turbulent time in art history, from the rigid, academic school to bolder, more self-expressive styles.

 

3 NJ or PA hours
Program begins in the Committee Room.
$25 public; $20 members

Using art as a compass, explore the Gilded Age, a fascinating and transitional era in American history. See how art can bring the stories of American industrialists and muckrakers to life. Discover what the art and decorative objects of the period reveal about the tastes and interests of the time. Explore key images of the era with a tour of selected objects in the Museum galleries.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

Explore the history of the altar and the common structures and visual motifs among them.

 

January 21 – March 24, 2012

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
  Children ages 5–6
  10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
• Children ages 7–8
  Children ages 9–12
  10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Learn More >>

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

January 21 – March 24, 2012

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
  Children ages 5–6
  10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
• Children ages 7–8
  Children ages 9–12
  10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Learn More >>

 

Van Pelt Auditorium, ground floor

Free for Members; guests $2 after admission

Join film lecturer Michael McGonigle for “CGI 101: What is Computer-Generated Imagery in Movies?” This talk is followed by a screening of Children of Men.

It’s 2007 in England and there have been no births for eighteen years because of widespread genetic infertility. Is it the end of humanity? Children of Men uses modern computer-generated imagery to tell the story of a radical group that’s forces Clive Owen’s character to help get a special woman out of the country. (2006, 108 minutes, rated R) Free Member event. Space is limited and reservations are required.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Project Basho
1305 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
To reserve your ticket visit www.summit.onwardphoto.org.


Join photographer Zoe Strauss and curator Peter Barberie for an in-depth conversation about Zoe Strauss: Ten Years as part of Project Basho’s first annual photography conference Onward Summit. For this portion of the Summit, Strauss and Barberie will speak about the process of putting together an exhibition of such magnitude, which not only includes a physical exhibition at the PMA with approximately 150 photographs and interior slideshows, but also a special project featuring Strauss’s photos displayed on billboards throughout Philadelphia.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tour meets in the West Lobby at the Family Cart.

Preschoolers and their families enjoy picture books and art projects presented in the Museum galleries.

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Tour meets in the West Lobby at the Family Cart.

Children and their families are led on a gallery tour to explore themes and discover works of art.

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Tour meets in the West Lobby at the Family Cart.

You are never too young to explore the Museum! Movement, play, and hands-on activities make up this fun tour designed especially for preschoolers and their families.

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Do you like to draw? All family members are welcome to try their drawing skills in the Museum galleries. An artist is on hand to provide materials and encouragement. Drop in anytime between noon and 3:00 p.m. to sketch, doodle, or create a masterpiece.

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Tours gather in the Perelman Lobby

Resplendent with multicolored and gilded ornaments, and animated with sculptures carved in limestone and cast in terracotta and metal, the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building is the most richly embellished example of Art Deco architecture to be erected in Philadelphia in the 1920s. Come discover it all in this fascinating tour!

 

Location: Director’s Office, next to Gallery 50 (Director’s Gallery)

To make an appointment: visit the Megawords installation, next to Gallery 48 (South Auditorium Gallery), or email.

View Zoe's calendar >>

Visitors are invited to speak with Zoe Strauss in an office she has decorated with paintings from the Museum’s collection.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Van Pelt Auditorium
$20 ($16 members, $5 students with valid ID); includes Museum admission.

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, discuss their new biography, Van Gogh: The Life. They’ll speak about the artist’s turbulent personal life, his immersion in the art and literature of his era, and how they shaped one of the signature imaginations in Western art. A book signing will follow the talk.

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Learn More >>

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

Explore the history of the altar and the common structures and visual motifs among them.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

From tea utensils to ceramic dishes, we’ll explore the ritual and the symbolism of the tea ceremony which has had a profound influence on Japanese art and culture.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall/West Lobby.

Museum educators lead engaging gallery tours for parents and caregivers and their young ones. If the baby fusses, don’t fret— you’ll be in good company.

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January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

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Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

This tour is perfect for first-time or long standing members, providing an overview of some of the Museum's most renowned treasures in a variety of mediums.

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Learn More >>

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

University of Pennsylvania and Temple University graduate students, and members of the Philadelphia Museum of Art staff, offer a series of informal 45-minute gallery lectures focusing on the Museum's rich resources in each of their respective areas of study. This program gives visitors an in-depth look at individual masterpieces and an opportunity for discussion.

Learn More >>

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Learn More >>

 

Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
OR Saturdays: February 4 and 18, 10:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$25 ($20 members)
To purchase tickets for the full course [$100 ($80 Members)], please call the Ticket Center at 215-235-7469 between 9AM and 5PM, Monday - Friday.

Lecturer: Catherine Hahn, Ph.D. candidate, Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Have you ever wondered why the art of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists is so universally revered? Why are Monet, Renoir, and van Gogh, among others, household names? This course examines some of the greatest treasures of late nineteenth-century art so that we can come to terms with what made both styles so revolutionary.

• Lecture 1: What Is Impressionism? Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas
• Lecture 2: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet
• Lecture 3: Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, and Mary Cassatt
• Lecture 4: Vincent van Gogh and Post-Impressionism

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

Join your guide to discuss the backgrounds and breakthrough moments of 19th and 20th century artists.

 

Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
OR Saturdays: February 4 and 18, 1:30-3:45 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$25 ($20 members)
To purchase tickets for the full course [$100 ($80 Members)], please call the Ticket Center at 215-235-7469 between 9AM and 5PM, Monday - Friday.

Lecturer: Elizabeth A. Anderson, independent art historian
The story of Renaissance art outside Italy is the story of the meeting of two worlds: revived classical antiquity and a still-vigorous medieval culture in Northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula. This meeting gives the art of the various regions its complexity and absorbing interest.

• Lecture 1: What Is (What Do We Mean by) the “Northern” Renaissance?
• Lecture 2: Masters of Fifteenth-Century Flemish Painting
• Lecture 3: The Flemish Influence Farther North: Swiss, German, English Art
• Lecture 4: The Flemish Influence in Spain and Portugal

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

University of Pennsylvania and Temple University graduate students, and members of the Philadelphia Museum of Art staff, offer a series of informal 45-minute gallery lectures focusing on the Museum's rich resources in each of their respective areas of study. This program gives visitors an in-depth look at individual masterpieces and an opportunity for discussion.

Learn More >>

 

Location: Director’s Office, next to Gallery 50 (Director’s Gallery)

To make an appointment: visit the Megawords installation, next to Gallery 48 (South Auditorium Gallery), or email.

View Zoe's calendar >>

Visitors are invited to speak with Zoe Strauss in an office she has decorated with paintings from the Museum’s collection.

 

January 20 – March 23, 2012

3:30 - 4:45 p.m.

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $100, Non-members $120

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
• Children ages 5–7
• Children ages 8–12

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Ralph Peterson is one of the most distinctive drummers in jazz, his talents as a musician, composer, arranger, and bandleader setting him apart as a master. The Curtis Brothers present modern Latin jazz with a social and political consciousness.

 

Explore paintings dated from 1850–1900 (including Academic Art, the School of Barbizon, and Realism) leading up to Impressionism, as well as paintings that came after Impressionism (Cézanne, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Art Nouveau movement).

 

Discover the innovative techniques and unique brush strokes of some of the most groundbreaking modern artists in the Museum's collection.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
OR Saturdays: February 4 and 18, 10:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$25 ($20 members)
To purchase tickets for the full course [$100 ($80 Members)], please call the Ticket Center at 215-235-7469 between 9AM and 5PM, Monday - Friday.

Lecturer: Catherine Hahn, Ph.D. candidate, Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Have you ever wondered why the art of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists is so universally revered? Why are Monet, Renoir, and van Gogh, among others, household names? This course examines some of the greatest treasures of late nineteenth-century art so that we can come to terms with what made both styles so revolutionary.

• Lecture 1: What Is Impressionism? Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas
• Lecture 2: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet
• Lecture 3: Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, and Mary Cassatt
• Lecture 4: Vincent van Gogh and Post-Impressionism

 

January 21 – March 24, 2012

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
  Children ages 5–6
  10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
• Children ages 7–8
  Children ages 9–12
  10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

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January 21 – March 24, 2012

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
  Children ages 5–6
  10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
• Children ages 7–8
  Children ages 9–12
  10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Learn More >>

 

Music in the Galleries is generously supported by Cooke & Bieler, LP.

Join us for these informal concerts in the galleries by the gifted young musicians of the Curtis Institute of Music. Prior to each concert, we look at a work of art and interpret it within the context of the performance. For all ages - older children are welcome.

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Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
OR Saturdays: February 4 and 18, 1:30-3:45 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$25 ($20 members)
To purchase tickets for the full course [$100 ($80 Members)], please call the Ticket Center at 215-235-7469 between 9AM and 5PM, Monday - Friday.

Lecturer: Elizabeth A. Anderson, independent art historian
The story of Renaissance art outside Italy is the story of the meeting of two worlds: revived classical antiquity and a still-vigorous medieval culture in Northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula. This meeting gives the art of the various regions its complexity and absorbing interest.

• Lecture 1: What Is (What Do We Mean by) the “Northern” Renaissance?
• Lecture 2: Masters of Fifteenth-Century Flemish Painting
• Lecture 3: The Flemish Influence Farther North: Swiss, German, English Art
• Lecture 4: The Flemish Influence in Spain and Portugal

 

Music in the Galleries is generously supported by Cooke & Bieler, LP.

Join us for these informal concerts in the galleries by the gifted young musicians of the Curtis Institute of Music. Prior to each concert, we look at a work of art and interpret it within the context of the performance. For all ages - older children are welcome.

Learn More >>

 

Music in the Galleries is generously supported by Cooke & Bieler, LP.

Join us for these informal concerts in the galleries by the gifted young musicians of the Curtis Institute of Music. Prior to each concert, we look at a work of art and interpret it within the context of the performance. For all ages - older children are welcome.

Learn More >>

 

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
1400 N. American Street #103
Philadelphia, PA 19122

The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is pleased to host a lecture and book signing by Philadelphia-based photographer Zoe Strauss. Strauss will discuss her decade-long I-95 project and Zoe Strauss: Ten Years, followed by a book signing. Strauss published her first book America in 2008. The exhibition catalogue Zoe Strauss: Ten Years is now available.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Enjoy Presidents’ Day with a celebration of American art. Meet artists as they demonstrate traditional American crafts, and create your artwork in the Make-and-Take Workshop. Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem will have you tapping your toes to their family-style journey through American roots music.

 

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Enjoy Presidents’ Day with a celebration of American art. Meet artists as they demonstrate traditional American crafts, and create your artwork in the Make-and-Take Workshop. Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem will have you tapping your toes to their family-style journey through American roots music.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Enjoy Presidents’ Day with a celebration of American art. Meet artists as they demonstrate traditional American crafts, and create your artwork in the Make-and-Take Workshop. Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem will have you tapping your toes to their family-style journey through American roots music.

 

Tours gather in the Perelman Lobby

Resplendent with multicolored and gilded ornaments, and animated with sculptures carved in limestone and cast in terracotta and metal, the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building is the most richly embellished example of Art Deco architecture to be erected in Philadelphia in the 1920s. Come discover it all in this fascinating tour!

 

Location: Director’s Office, next to Gallery 50 (Director’s Gallery)

To make an appointment: visit the Megawords installation, next to Gallery 48 (South Auditorium Gallery), or email.

View Zoe's calendar >>

Visitors are invited to speak with Zoe Strauss in an office she has decorated with paintings from the Museum’s collection.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Enjoy Presidents’ Day with a celebration of American art. Meet artists as they demonstrate traditional American crafts, and create your artwork in the Make-and-Take Workshop. Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem will have you tapping your toes to their family-style journey through American roots music.

 

2 NJ or PA hours
Program takes place in the Wachovia Education Resource Center

Whether you are a novice or an expert, come to this workshop to hone your ARTstor skills. ARTstor, a huge database of high-resolution art images, is a tremendous teaching tool for classroom use. Learn how to search the database as well as create engaging Offline Image Viewer (OIV) presentations for your students. Practice on the computers at the Wachovia Education Resource Center or bring your own laptop.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

Join your guide to discuss the backgrounds and breakthrough moments of 19th and 20th century artists.

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Learn More >>

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Learn More >>

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

Explore the history of the altar and the common structures and visual motifs among them.

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Learn More >>

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

University of Pennsylvania and Temple University graduate students, and members of the Philadelphia Museum of Art staff, offer a series of informal 45-minute gallery lectures focusing on the Museum's rich resources in each of their respective areas of study. This program gives visitors an in-depth look at individual masterpieces and an opportunity for discussion.

Learn More >>

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Learn More >>

 

Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
OR Saturdays: February 4 and 18, 10:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$25 ($20 members)
To purchase tickets for the full course [$100 ($80 Members)], please call the Ticket Center at 215-235-7469 between 9AM and 5PM, Monday - Friday.

Lecturer: Catherine Hahn, Ph.D. candidate, Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Have you ever wondered why the art of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists is so universally revered? Why are Monet, Renoir, and van Gogh, among others, household names? This course examines some of the greatest treasures of late nineteenth-century art so that we can come to terms with what made both styles so revolutionary.

• Lecture 1: What Is Impressionism? Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas
• Lecture 2: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet
• Lecture 3: Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, and Mary Cassatt
• Lecture 4: Vincent van Gogh and Post-Impressionism

 

Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, and 23, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
OR Saturdays: February 4 and 18, 1:30-3:45 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$25 ($20 members)
To purchase tickets for the full course [$100 ($80 Members)], please call the Ticket Center at 215-235-7469 between 9AM and 5PM, Monday - Friday.

Lecturer: Elizabeth A. Anderson, independent art historian
The story of Renaissance art outside Italy is the story of the meeting of two worlds: revived classical antiquity and a still-vigorous medieval culture in Northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula. This meeting gives the art of the various regions its complexity and absorbing interest.

• Lecture 1: What Is (What Do We Mean by) the “Northern” Renaissance?
• Lecture 2: Masters of Fifteenth-Century Flemish Painting
• Lecture 3: The Flemish Influence Farther North: Swiss, German, English Art
• Lecture 4: The Flemish Influence in Spain and Portugal

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Location: Meet at Diego Rivera’s mural Liberation of the Peon, near the Balcony Shop, first floor

University of Pennsylvania and Temple University graduate students, and members of the Philadelphia Museum of Art staff, offer a series of informal 45-minute gallery lectures focusing on the Museum's rich resources in each of their respective areas of study. This program gives visitors an in-depth look at individual masterpieces and an opportunity for discussion.

Learn More >>

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Location: Director’s Office, next to Gallery 50 (Director’s Gallery)

To make an appointment: visit the Megawords installation, next to Gallery 48 (South Auditorium Gallery), or email.

View Zoe's calendar >>

Visitors are invited to speak with Zoe Strauss in an office she has decorated with paintings from the Museum’s collection.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

From tea utensils to ceramic dishes, we’ll explore the ritual and the symbolism of the tea ceremony which has had a profound influence on Japanese art and culture.

 

January 20 – March 23, 2012

3:30 - 4:45 p.m.

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $100, Non-members $120

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
• Children ages 5–7
• Children ages 8–12

Learn More >>

 

Singer-songwriter Avi Wisnia finds inspiration in bossa nova, American folk music, 1950s West Coast jazz, and pop. He returns to Philadelphia after touring for his debut album, Something New, performing at the Kennedy Center, and sharing the stage with artists like Ani DiFranco and The Roots.

 

Discover exciting, innovative, and sometimes controversial works of art created in the 20th and 21st centuries.

 

Explore the world of princely armor with a tour through the Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Collection of Arms and Armor.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

This tour focuses on the Museum's extraordinary collection of American art, including paintings, furniture, and decorative arts.

 

Step into the unusual and fascinating world of Marcel Duchamp, and discover his earliest paintings and famed Readymades as well as letters and ephemera.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

5 NJ or PA hours
Program begins in the Committee Room
$36 public; $29 members

This course explores how religion has shaped Islamic culture and art. It begins with a lecture by Dr. Jamal Elias, chair of the department of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a gallery talk by Yael Rice, Assistant Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art. At the end of the day, participants will have a group brainstorming session to strategize how to bring what they have learned to their classrooms.

 

January 21 – March 24, 2012

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
  Children ages 5–6
  10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
• Children ages 7–8
  Children ages 9–12
  10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Learn More >>

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

January 21 – March 24, 2012

Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

• Children ages 3–4 with an adult
  Children ages 5–6
  10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
• Children ages 7–8
  Children ages 9–12
  10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Learn More >>

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Location: Great Stair Hall
Gala Tickets
$175 per person
$125 per Young Friends member

Group Gala Tickets
$150 per person—for groups of four or more people
Please use Discount code YFWGREF at Check Out to receive the Group Discount.

VIP Tickets
$275 per person
$225 per Young Friends member

All standard and group tickets purchased after February 17, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. are $185 per person. Young Friends member and VIP ticket prices do not increase.

The Young Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art invite you to a black tie affair in celebration of the legendary artist Vincent van Gogh, and to enjoy an up close experience in the newly opened exhibition.

Held in the Museum’s Great Stair Hall, guests mix, mingle, and enjoy world-class art, as they sip signature cocktails, and take their chances on the raffle and silent auction.

VIPs enjoy an exclusive pre-gala reception, which includes a tour of Van Gogh Up Close, a swag bag, and access to the VIP lounge and bar with the best view of the city!

All proceeds go towards the Young Friends' mission of support for art acquisitions, education, conservation, and special projects within the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

Join your guide to discuss the backgrounds and breakthrough moments of 19th and 20th century artists.

 

Tour meets in the West Lobby at the Family Cart.

Preschoolers and their families enjoy picture books and art projects presented in the Museum galleries.

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Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Tour meets in the West Lobby at the Family Cart.

Children and their families are led on a gallery tour to explore themes and discover works of art.

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Tour meets in the West Lobby at the Family Cart.

You are never too young to explore the Museum! Movement, play, and hands-on activities make up this fun tour designed especially for preschoolers and their families.

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Do you like to draw? All family members are welcome to try their drawing skills in the Museum galleries. An artist is on hand to provide materials and encouragement. Drop in anytime between noon and 3:00 p.m. to sketch, doodle, or create a masterpiece.

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Tours gather in the Perelman Lobby

Resplendent with multicolored and gilded ornaments, and animated with sculptures carved in limestone and cast in terracotta and metal, the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building is the most richly embellished example of Art Deco architecture to be erected in Philadelphia in the 1920s. Come discover it all in this fascinating tour!

 

Location: Director’s Office, next to Gallery 50 (Director’s Gallery)

To make an appointment: visit the Megawords installation, next to Gallery 48 (South Auditorium Gallery), or email.

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Visitors are invited to speak with Zoe Strauss in an office she has decorated with paintings from the Museum’s collection.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
$8 ($6 members and students with valid ID); after Museum admission.

Directed by Vincente Minnelli and adapted from Irving Stone’s book, Lust for Life erupts with the expressive colors of van Gogh’s own paintings. Kirk Douglas stars as van Gogh, harnessing his own primal reticence and deeply insecure arrogance. Minnelli dials Douglas’s performance further up, as film critic Dave Kehr noted, anchoring “the film in a dazzlingly schizophrenic, first-person point of view.”

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

From tea utensils to ceramic dishes, we’ll explore the ritual and the symbolism of the tea ceremony which has had a profound influence on Japanese art and culture.

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

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Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance)
$30 Members, $36 non-members, Patron-level members and above receive two tickets for a private tour of one ticketed exhibition before public hours.

Space is limited, and reservations required. Program fee is nonrefundable and members’ exhibition tickets may not be applied to the cost of the program.

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition before public hours, an intimate setting in which to view some of Vincent van Gogh’s boldest and most experimental works. Price includes a one-hour exhibition tour and general Museum admission.

 

Tours meet in Lenfest Hall (West Entrance).
Free for members

Explore the history of the altar and the common structures and visual motifs among them.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

 

January 17 – March 22, 2012
Location: Education Studios
Tuition: Members $120, Nonmembers $150

Class size is limited. Preregistration is required, and fees are nonrefundable unless the Museum cancels the class.

Children ages 3–5 with an adult

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Enjoy a guided tour of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.