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 "Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection.

 

Discover architecture, interior decoration, and paintings from the Georgian Period—named after the kings with the name George who reigned from 1714 to 1760.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of "Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection.

 

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.

 

Tours gather in Museum's West Entrance
Tickets may be purchased at the Admissions Ticket Desk, no advanced reservations are necessary. Please note that tours are weather dependant and will not take place in excessive heat or rain. Moderate walking is involved.

Join Park House Guides on a tour of the Fairmount Water Works, an engineering marvel of its time, which was described by Edgar Allan Poe as "wondrous to behold".

 

Tours gather in Museum's West Entrance
Please note that tours are weather dependant and will not take place in excessive heat or rain. Moderate walking is involved.

Set at the terminus of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the views of and from the Philadelphia Museum of Art are justifiably renowned. Join the Park House Guides to tour the East Terrace for an informative and fun hour as they explore the magnificent architecture and outdoor sculpture of the Museum. Discover the building's fascinating history and delight in the wealth of details that adorn this classically inspired building making it a uniquely beautiful part of Philadelphia’s urban landscape.

 

Location: Great Stair Hall Balcony

Bring your own mat!

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

 

Associate Membership Required
To RSVP, contact the Associates office at 215-684-7766 or .

The acquisition of the Aperture Foundation’s holdings of work by American photographer Paul Strand presents the Museum with an opportunity to assemble the finest and most comprehensive Strand collection in the world. Join Peter Barberie, The Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, to learn more about the importance of this seminal acquisition, and the great twentieth-century photographer who defined the modernist possibilities of the camera and the photographic medium. The talk will be followed by a reception.

 

Enjoy a guided tour of "Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection.

 

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: Van Pelt Auditorium

The May film series Celebrate Golf! honors all things golf-related through four amusing and quirky films. Visit gallery 280 before the films to see the Art of Golf exhibition, including works on loan from the National Galleries of Scotland.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission.

This is the true story of the courage and passion of one of America’s greatest sports heroes. At the 1913 US Open, Francis Ouimet (Shia LeBeouf), an amateur working-class boy, shocked the world when he beat the defending British champion in what was formerly only a gentleman’s game. (Rated PG.)

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Erica Warren, Curatorial Fellow, of European Decorative Arts.

 

Meets at the base of the Great Stair Hall steps.

Explore 3 artworks in 33 minutes! Triple Play is part conversation, part gallery talk – all informal and fun.

Wednesday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

With Erica Warren, Curatorial Fellow, of European Decorative Arts.