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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 ...
73001662 [1] Added to NRHP. July 2, 1973. The Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building —originally the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company Building —is an annex of the Philadelphia Museum of Art containing exhibition galleries, offices, conservation labs, and the museum library. It is an Art Deco building that features cathedral-like ...
Focuses on Swedish contributions to history, art, architecture, music, science and technology. Arthur Ross Gallery. West Philadelphia. Art. Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania. Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Center City. Art. Museum of American fine and decorative arts, exhibits about architecture and design history.
Designated NHL. December 8, 1976. Memorial Hall is a Beaux-Arts style building in the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, it is the only major structure from that exhibition to survive. It subsequently housed the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial ...
The Rocky Steps are 72 stone steps leading up to the East entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia that gained global fame after being featured in a notable scene from the 1976 film Rocky. In the scene, Rocky Balboa, an unpolished but ambitious boxer from South Philadelphia played by Sylvester Stallone, begins intense physical ...
Philip and Muriel Berman were American art collectors, philanthropists, and the founders of the Berman Art Museum at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Phillip was the chairman of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Muriel was an honorary member of the board. They endowed many Jewish charities including Hadassah as well commissioning ...
Eakins Oval is a traffic circle in Philadelphia. It forms the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway just in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with a central array of fountains and monuments, and a network of pedestrian walkways. This loop of road usually carries a large volume of traffic, as it connects the core of the city with ...
October 15, 1966 [1] Designated NHL. May 30, 1974 [2] Mount Pleasant is a historic mansion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, atop cliffs overlooking the Schuylkill River. It was built about 1761–62 in what was then the countryside outside the city by John Macpherson and his wife Margaret. Macpherson was a privateer, or perhaps a pirate, who had ...