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 Philadelphia Museum of Art's main building at Eakins Oval | |
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| Established | February 1876[1] |
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| Location | 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.[2] |
| Coordinates | 39°57′57″N 75°10′53″W / 39.96583°N 75.18139°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Collection size | 240,000[3] |
| Visitors | 793,000 (2017)[4] |
| Director | Sasha Suda[5][6][7] |
| Chairperson | Ellen T. Caplan |
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| Public transit access |   SEPTA bus: 38, 43 Philly PHLASH, Suburban Station |
| Website | www |
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.[1] The main museum building was completed in 1928[8] on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval.[2] The museum administers collections containing over 240,000 objects including major holdings of European, American and Asian origin.[3] The various classes of artwork include sculpture, paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, armor, and decorative arts.[3]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art administers several annexes including the Rodin Museum, also located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, which is located across the street just north of the main building.[9] The Perelman Building, which opened in 2007,[10] houses more than 150,000 prints, drawings and photographs, 30,000 costume and textile pieces, and over 1,000 modern and contemporary design objects including furniture, ceramics, and glasswork.[11]
The museum also administers the historic colonial-era houses of Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove, both located in Fairmount Park.[12] The main museum building and its annexes are owned by the City of Philadelphia and administered by a registered nonprofit corporation.[9]
Several special exhibitions are held in the museum every year, including touring exhibitions arranged with other museums in the United States and abroad.[13][14] The museum had 437,348 visitors in 2021, making it the 65th most-visited art museum worldwide.[15]
- ^ a b "Centennial Origins: 1874–1876". History. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
- ^ a b "Philadelphia Museum of Art: Homepage". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- ^ a b c "Search Collections". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
- ^ Robert T. Rambo (n.d.). "2017 Annual Report" (PDF). Philadelphia Museum of Art. p. 19 (of PDF file). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 28, 2018. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
Admission income of $5.4 million and attendance of 793,000 were essentially at the same levels as 2016.
- ^ "Philadelphia Museum of Art - About Us : Administration". www.philamuseum.org. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
- ^ Kinsella, Eileen (June 7, 2022). "National Gallery of Ontario Director Sasha Suda Will Leave to Helm the Philadelphia Museum of Art". Artnet News. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
- ^ "Meet Sasha Suda, Philadelphia Museum of Art's new CEO and director". www.audacy.com. June 8, 2022. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
- ^ "Philadelphia Museum of Art: About Us: Our Story: 1920–1930". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
- ^ a b "About Us: Administration". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
- ^ "About Us : Our Story : Perelman Building - Renovations and Expansion". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- ^ "About Us : Our Story : Perelman Building – Galleries & Spaces". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- ^ "Visiting : Plan Your Visit : Historic Houses" Archived December 16, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "On View: Past Exhibitions". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
- ^ "On View: Current Exhibitions". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
- ^ The Art Newspaper, March 28, 2022.