en-usCopyright 2012 Philadelphia Museum of ArtWed, 16 May 2012 02:30:01 -0500The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest and most important art museums in the United States.http://www.philamuseum.org/May 5, 2012 - August 12, 2012: Crafts were prominent among the first works of art to enter the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art when it was founded in 1876, and the Museum has continued to collect and exhibit crafts.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/758.htmlMay 5, 2012February 11, 2012 - June 3, 2012: From the first roll-film Leica in the 1920s to the familiar disposable cardboard Kodak, the handheld 35mm camera became a ubiquitous and indispensable photographic tool in the twentieth century.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/761.htmlFebruary 11, 2012May 5, 2012 - August 5, 2012: From the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries, stoneware ceramics from Germanspeaking centers in modern-day Germany and the Low Countries were valued and widely traded throughout northern Europe. In the 1600s—the heyday of stoneware production—they found an enthusiastic market in colonial North America.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/764.htmlMay 5, 2012September 7, 2010 - Summer 2013: The debut installation in the Museum’s new Anne d’Harnoncourt Sculpture Garden—Isamu Noguchi at the Philadelphia Museum of Art—presents a fascinating selection of sculptures by Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904–1988), who had long-standing ties with the Museum and its late director Anne d’Harnoncourt.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/736.htmlSeptember 7, 2010