Welcome to the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Overlooking one of the nation's most culturally vibrant cities, the Philadelphia Museum of Art welcomes nearly a million visitors each year, encouraging them to embark upon a walk through time that extends across two millennia and six continents.
Whether it's the first visit to the new Perelman Building or the hundredth to the main building, there is always something new to delight, surprise, enlighten, excite, and inspire.
Main & Perelman Building Hours ● Admission ● Directions ● Parking
In the main building's sweep of 200 captivating galleries, visitors find many surprises and changing exhibitions. There are striking Renaissance master paintings, elaborately carved stone altarpieces, and entire period rooms and architectural settings from around the world.
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Across from the main building behind an exquisitely preserved Art Deco facade is the newly renovated and expanded Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, the first phase of a major plan to dramatically enhance and modernize the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Just a few blocks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is the Rodin Museum, home to the largest public collection of works by the celebrated late nineteenth-century French sculptor Auguste Rodin outside of Paris. With extraordinary works of art and spectacular gardens, the Museum offers a calm retreat from the hustle and bustle of the city.
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Park HousesWithin Philadelphia's extensive Fairmount Park stands a group of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century historic houses. Perfectly illustrating the styles, furnishings, and domestic lives of the time, the Philadelphia Museum of Art currently administers two of the colonial park houses, Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove. |
