The history of the United States is brought to life through the Museum's American collections, which survey three centuries of paintings, furniture, sculpture, and decorative arts with a special emphasis on Philadelphia’s rich traditions.

	Highlights from the Collections
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The collections include important portraits, landscapes, and figure paintings by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century masters, including the country’s finest group of work by Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins. Magnificent examples of Colonial and Federal furniture and silver, as well as the arts of rural Pennsylvania, join an unmatched collection of Tucker porcelains, design books, papers, and tools. The collections also boast several hundred American glass objects and their European prototypes, a wonderful group of Shaker works, and fine contemporary crafts.

Changing displays of modern and contemporary art can also be found in the American galleries. These rotating installations frequently highlight work by the Pennsylvania Impressionists, the “Ash Can” realists of the early twentieth century, and African American artists from the Museum’s collections.

Please note, many of the objects on view in these galleries rotate periodically.