Travel from the High Renaissance to the Neoclassical period with paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and tapestries.

 

What other partners created art besides Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera? Join us and explore such partners as Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell, Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, and Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

 

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 in-depth look at the exhibition Cornucopia: Recent Acquisitions in Japanese Art.

 

From dramatic panel paintings to colorful stained glass to ornate architectural elements, discover the Museum's superb collection of treasures from Medieval Europe.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

April 18 - May 16, 2008
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Complete the school week in an artistic way! These challenging and fun studio experiences complement concepts introduced in the Museum galleries. Please enroll your child in the appropriate class according to age.
Tuition: Members $50, Nonmembers $60

Complete the school week in an artistic way! These challenging and fun studio experiences complement concepts introduced in the Museum galleries. Please enroll your child in the appropriate class according to age.

• Ages 3–4 with parent
• Ages 5–6
• Ages 7–8
• Ages 9–12

 

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

 

With the Dave Douglas Quintet, saxophonist Donny McCaslin has achieved wide praise for his emotionally charged solos. His virtuosity and distinctive voice as a composer have been on display on his sideman work on recordings by Danilo Pérez and Luciana Souza, as well as on his solo albums, which subtly incorporate elements of Latin American music within adventurous jazz frameworks.

 

This tour takes a look at some of the Museum's most renowned treasures.

 

Discover the Museum's fascinating collection of arms and armor, including plate and mail armor, swords, daggers, shields, crossbows, and equestrian equipment; and learn about those who used them.

 

Join Park House Guides on a walking tour of Boathouse Row and discover local sculpture and the Fairmount Water Works.

Members $5, member child (13-18) $1, nonmembers $6, nonmember child (13-18) $3, children 12 and under free. Tickets are available at any Visitor Services Desk on the day of tour and departs from the West Entrance.

 

Marvel at exquisite works of art from the Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe.

 

Explore the Museum's extensive collection of Asian art, including treasures from Japan, China, and Korea.

 

Please call (215) 235-SHOW (7469) for more information.
Members $24
Non-members $30

Experience the captivating Frida Kahlo exhibition with a guided tour in an intimate setting before the Museum opens to the public.

 

Please call (215) 235-SHOW (7469) for more information.
Members $24
Non-members $30

Experience the captivating Frida Kahlo exhibition with a guided tour in an intimate setting before the Museum opens to the public.

 

Thursdays: 4 sessions, May 1, 8, 15, and 22; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
- or -
Saturdays: 2 lectures, May 10 and 31; 9:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Lecturers: Peter Barberie (PB), Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University; and Katherine Ware (KW), Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Members: $64
Nonmembers: $80

This course surveys the history of American photography, with an emphasis on the ways landscape was used to forge and explore American identity. Join us for an in-depth look at the work of key figures such as Carleton Watkins, Timothy O’Sullivan, Alfred Stieglitz, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Robert Frank.

• Applied Science, Practical Art: Documents, Surveys, and the Romance of the American West (PB)
• Gilded Lilies: Pictorialism and Its American Advocates (PB)
• Inventing an American Style: Ansel Adams / Berenice Abbott / Walker Evans (KW)
• Road Trips: Photographic Journeys Up, Down, and Across the United States (PB)

 

Explore fascinating treasures from the Museum's Medieval and Asian art galleries.

 

April 19 - May 17, 2008

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Ages 5–6
Ages 7–8
Ages 9–12
Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Young five-year-olds are welcome to join this class as well. Parents attend free.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 5–6
Children explore the galleries with a Museum teacher and use a variety of materials to create prints, paintings, and sculptures. Parents do not participate in this class.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 7–8
Students imagine life in another country or period of history during treks through the Museum's galleries. After exploring the collection, they create their own artistic treasures using fun studio techniques.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Ages 9–12
Works of art in the Museum inspire your child's own creative voice. This class explores painting, printmaking, and sculpture in new and imaginative ways.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

 

April 19 - May 17, 2008

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Ages 5–6
Ages 7–8
Ages 9–12
Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Young five-year-olds are welcome to join this class as well. Parents attend free.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 5–6
Children explore the galleries with a Museum teacher and use a variety of materials to create prints, paintings, and sculptures. Parents do not participate in this class.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 7–8
Students imagine life in another country or period of history during treks through the Museum's galleries. After exploring the collection, they create their own artistic treasures using fun studio techniques.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Ages 9–12
Works of art in the Museum inspire your child's own creative voice. This class explores painting, printmaking, and sculpture in new and imaginative ways.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

 

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.

 

Travel from the High Renaissance to the Neoclassical period with paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and tapestries.

 

Enjoy the sometimes startling and often poignant works of Philadelphian Thomas Eakins.

 

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

 

April 19 - May 17, 2008

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Ages 5–6
Ages 7–8
Ages 9–12
Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Young five-year-olds are welcome to join this class as well. Parents attend free.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 5–6
Children explore the galleries with a Museum teacher and use a variety of materials to create prints, paintings, and sculptures. Parents do not participate in this class.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 7–8
Students imagine life in another country or period of history during treks through the Museum's galleries. After exploring the collection, they create their own artistic treasures using fun studio techniques.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Ages 9–12
Works of art in the Museum inspire your child's own creative voice. This class explores painting, printmaking, and sculpture in new and imaginative ways.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

 

April 19 - May 17, 2008

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Ages 5–6
Ages 7–8
Ages 9–12
Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Young five-year-olds are welcome to join this class as well. Parents attend free.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 5–6
Children explore the galleries with a Museum teacher and use a variety of materials to create prints, paintings, and sculptures. Parents do not participate in this class.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 7–8
Students imagine life in another country or period of history during treks through the Museum's galleries. After exploring the collection, they create their own artistic treasures using fun studio techniques.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Ages 9–12
Works of art in the Museum inspire your child's own creative voice. This class explores painting, printmaking, and sculpture in new and imaginative ways.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

 

Thursdays: 4 sessions, May 1, 8, 15, and 22; 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
- or -
Saturdays: 2 lectures, May 10 and 31; 1:30 - 3:45 p.m.
Lecturer: David Raizman, Professor of Art History, Department of Visual Studies, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Members: $64
Nonmembers: $80

This course examines decorative arts, furniture, and furnishings in Western Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1914. The unprecedented rise in the demand, production, marketing, and retailing of manufactured goods during this period spurred new approaches to design that sought to reconcile art, craft, and industry. Join us as we explore several of these innovative approaches, integrating examples from the Museum’s design collection. In addition to analyzing objects and interiors from this period, lectures address the role of international exhibitions, department stores, mail-order catalogues, and advertising.

*This course is the first in an ongoing series on design that will look at objects in the Collab Gallery in the Perelman Building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

• Christopher Dresser and “Industrial” Design; "Art Furniture"
• The Aesthetic Movement; Art Nouveau and Its Variations
• The Arts and Crafts Movement
• Standardization and Efficiency

 

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.

 

Get to know works of art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the very paintings that marked the beginning of modern art.

 

Explore fascinating treasures from the Museum's Medieval and Asian art galleries.

 

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.

 

Celebrate mom with a look at motherhood as it is depicted in a variety of works of art.

 

Travel from the High Renaissance to the Neoclassical period with paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and tapestries.

 

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.

 

Van Pelt Auditorium, ground floor, main building

Enjoy a screening of Miroslava, winner of six "Ariel" awards (Mexico’s Oscar), starring Veronica Langer and directed by Alejandro Pelayo. This film is being shown in conjunction with the exhibition Frida Kahlo.

 

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

 

Learn how this unique genre came to be through works of art by masters including Claude Monet, Camille Pisarro, and Georges Braque.

 

Associate mothers, bring your (adult) daughters, Associate daughters, bring your mothers—for a special brunch and tour in the Perelman Building. Kristina Haugland, Associate Curator of Costume and Textiles, will lead a discussion and tour.

 

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.

 

Discover a variety of styles and techniques in the Museum's superb collection of modern and contemporary art.

 

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

 

Discover paintings, furniture, sculpture, block-printed wallpapers, and ceramics representing Impressionism, International Realism, Post-Impressionism, and Art Nouveau.

 

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.

 

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

 

What other partners created art besides Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera? Join us and explore such partners as Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell, Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, and Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

 

From the simple to the highly decorated, take a look at the various types of furniture that have been a part of Chinese residences throughout the ages.

 

Tuesday Afternoons
April 22 - May 20, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday Afternoons
April 23 - May 21, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Thursday Mornings and Afternoons
April 24 - May 22, 2008
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Parents attend free.

 

Tours meet in the Perelman Building lobby.
Space is limited.

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.

 

Explore the ancient world of Constantine the Great through the majesty of the Museum's 17th-century French and Italian tapestries.

 

All family members are welcome to try their drawing skills in the Museum galleries. An artist is on hand to provide materials and encouragement.

Learn More >>

 

Tuesday Afternoons
April 22 - May 20, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday Afternoons
April 23 - May 21, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Thursday Mornings and Afternoons
April 24 - May 22, 2008
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Parents attend free.

 

Thursdays: 4 sessions, May 1, 8, 15, and 22; 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
- or -
Saturdays: 2 lectures, May 10 and 31; 9:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Lecturers: Peter Barberie (PB), Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University; and Katherine Ware (KW), Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Members: $64
Nonmembers: $80

This course surveys the history of American photography, with an emphasis on the ways landscape was used to forge and explore American identity. Join us for an in-depth look at the work of key figures such as Carleton Watkins, Timothy O’Sullivan, Alfred Stieglitz, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Robert Frank.

• Applied Science, Practical Art: Documents, Surveys, and the Romance of the American West (PB)
• Gilded Lilies: Pictorialism and Its American Advocates (PB)
• Inventing an American Style: Ansel Adams / Berenice Abbott / Walker Evans (KW)
• Road Trips: Photographic Journeys Up, Down, and Across the United States (PB)

 

Explore objects from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, feasting your eyes on wonderful works of art as you hear the fascinating tales associated with them.

 

Tuesday Afternoons
April 22 - May 20, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday Afternoons
April 23 - May 21, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Thursday Mornings and Afternoons
April 24 - May 22, 2008
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Parents attend free.

 

Thursdays: 4 sessions, May 1, 8, 15, and 22; 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
- or -
Saturdays: 2 lectures, May 10 and 31; 1:30 - 3:45 p.m.
Lecturer: David Raizman, Professor of Art History, Department of Visual Studies, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Members: $64
Nonmembers: $80

This course examines decorative arts, furniture, and furnishings in Western Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1914. The unprecedented rise in the demand, production, marketing, and retailing of manufactured goods during this period spurred new approaches to design that sought to reconcile art, craft, and industry. Join us as we explore several of these innovative approaches, integrating examples from the Museum’s design collection. In addition to analyzing objects and interiors from this period, lectures address the role of international exhibitions, department stores, mail-order catalogues, and advertising.

*This course is the first in an ongoing series on design that will look at objects in the Collab Gallery in the Perelman Building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

• Christopher Dresser and “Industrial” Design; "Art Furniture"
• The Aesthetic Movement; Art Nouveau and Its Variations
• The Arts and Crafts Movement
• Standardization and Efficiency

 

Tuesday Afternoons
April 22 - May 20, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday Afternoons
April 23 - May 21, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Thursday Mornings and Afternoons
April 24 - May 22, 2008
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Children ages 3–5 with an adult

Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Parents attend free.

 

What other partners created art besides Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera? Join us and explore such partners as Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell, Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, and Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

 

Take an in-depth look at the exhibition Cornucopia: Recent Acquisitions in Japanese Art.

 

April 18 - May 16, 2008
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Complete the school week in an artistic way! These challenging and fun studio experiences complement concepts introduced in the Museum galleries. Please enroll your child in the appropriate class according to age.
Tuition: Members $50, Nonmembers $60

Complete the school week in an artistic way! These challenging and fun studio experiences complement concepts introduced in the Museum galleries. Please enroll your child in the appropriate class according to age.

• Ages 3–4 with parent
• Ages 5–6
• Ages 7–8
• Ages 9–12

 

After a successful career in his native Uruguay, pianist and composer Nando Michelin came to Boston to attend the Berklee College of Music. In his music, he explores the relationship between Latin music and jazz improvisation, forging a wholly personal voice that draws on both.

 

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

 

Discover exciting, innovative, and sometimes controversial works of art created in the twentieth century.

 

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

 

April 19 - May 17, 2008

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Ages 5–6
Ages 7–8
Ages 9–12
Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Young five-year-olds are welcome to join this class as well. Parents attend free.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 5–6
Children explore the galleries with a Museum teacher and use a variety of materials to create prints, paintings, and sculptures. Parents do not participate in this class.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 7–8
Students imagine life in another country or period of history during treks through the Museum's galleries. After exploring the collection, they create their own artistic treasures using fun studio techniques.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Ages 9–12
Works of art in the Museum inspire your child's own creative voice. This class explores painting, printmaking, and sculpture in new and imaginative ways.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

 

April 19 - May 17, 2008

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Ages 5–6
Ages 7–8
Ages 9–12
Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Young five-year-olds are welcome to join this class as well. Parents attend free.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 5–6
Children explore the galleries with a Museum teacher and use a variety of materials to create prints, paintings, and sculptures. Parents do not participate in this class.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 7–8
Students imagine life in another country or period of history during treks through the Museum's galleries. After exploring the collection, they create their own artistic treasures using fun studio techniques.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Ages 9–12
Works of art in the Museum inspire your child's own creative voice. This class explores painting, printmaking, and sculpture in new and imaginative ways.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

 

Delight in the Museum's extraordinary collection of French treasures.

 

April 19 - May 17, 2008

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Ages 5–6
Ages 7–8
Ages 9–12
Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Young five-year-olds are welcome to join this class as well. Parents attend free.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 5–6
Children explore the galleries with a Museum teacher and use a variety of materials to create prints, paintings, and sculptures. Parents do not participate in this class.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 7–8
Students imagine life in another country or period of history during treks through the Museum's galleries. After exploring the collection, they create their own artistic treasures using fun studio techniques.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Ages 9–12
Works of art in the Museum inspire your child's own creative voice. This class explores painting, printmaking, and sculpture in new and imaginative ways.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

 

April 19 - May 17, 2008

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Ages 5–6
Ages 7–8
Ages 9–12
Tuition: Members $60, Nonmembers $75

Ages 3–4 with a parent
Discover the Museum with your child in the galleries and studio. Young five-year-olds are welcome to join this class as well. Parents attend free.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 5–6
Children explore the galleries with a Museum teacher and use a variety of materials to create prints, paintings, and sculptures. Parents do not participate in this class.

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Ages 7–8
Students imagine life in another country or period of history during treks through the Museum's galleries. After exploring the collection, they create their own artistic treasures using fun studio techniques.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Ages 9–12
Works of art in the Museum inspire your child's own creative voice. This class explores painting, printmaking, and sculpture in new and imaginative ways.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

 

Van Pelt Auditorium, ground floor

Members: FREE
Member Adult Guest: $14
Member Child Guest: $10

Enjoy a film screening and a related lecture at the Museum.

 

Enjoy colorful Dutch tiles adorned with a variety of scenes, designs, and motifs, ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

 

All family members are welcome to try their drawing skills in the Museum galleries. An artist is on hand to provide materials and encouragement.

Learn More >>

 

What other partners created art besides Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera? Join us and explore such partners as Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell, Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, and Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.