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. No tickets required.

First Sunday of the Month: “Pay What You Wish” Museum Admission

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

This tour discusses the role that women have played in art throughout history, and looks at objects by women artists in a variety of mediums and techniques.

 

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

 

Tours gather in the Perelman Lobby
Please note that tours are weather dependant and will not take place in excessive heat or rain. Moderate walking is involved.

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!

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

Tour gathers in the Perelman Lobby


Enjoy a guided tour of Journeys to New Worlds: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Roberta and Richard Huber 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".

 

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