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We drove nearly 3 hours from Fairfax, VA and luckily with less traffic than we were told. We arrived there just before they opened at 10 am. We parked in the Museum’s parking garage for the whole day while in Philadelphia. Our friend Bill & Lin met us at the front of the museum. They were our guide for full day museum tours. We love the environment of the museum because there were not too many visitors that made us felt less stressful to enjoy the collections. You will need 3 to 4 hours in order to just barely see most of it. If you are an art lover, then you can easily spend an entire day at the museum. It opens from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily except Mondays. On Friday nights they extend the closing time to 8:45 pm. It has much better organized viewing routes than the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has a collection of more than 227,000 works of art and more than 200 galleries displaying paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photography, decorative arts, textiles, and architectural settings from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. We were happy to see many oil paintings from Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso. I wonder how they can have so many valuable collections in one museum.
Its facilities include the landmark Main Building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (originally called Fairmount Parkway), the Perelman Building located on the nearby Pennsylvania Avenue, the Rodin Museum on the 2154 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and two 18th-century houses in Fairmount Park, Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove. The construction of Main Building started in 1919, and it wasn't completed until 1928. It was designed by Howell Lewis Shay for the building's plan and Julian Abele for the detail work. The Museum is undergoing an underground building expansion plan to increase about sixty percent of displaying space behind the famous “Rocky Steps”. The construction will take at least a decade from 2006.
We drove nearly 3 hours from Fairfax, VA and luckily with less traffic than we were told. We arrived there just before they opened at 10 am. We parked in the Museum’s parking garage for the whole day while in Philadelphia. Our friend Bill & Lin met us at the front of the museum. They were our guide for full day museum tours. We love the environment of the museum because there were not too many visitors that made us felt less stressful to enjoy the collections. You will need 3 to 4 hours in order to just barely see most of it. If you are an art lover, then you can easily spend an entire day at the museum. It opens from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily except Mondays. On Friday nights they extend the closing time to 8:45 pm. It has much better organized viewing routes than the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has a collection of more than 227,000 works of art and more than 200 galleries displaying paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photography, decorative arts, textiles, and architectural settings from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. We were happy to see many oil paintings from Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso. I wonder how they can have so many valuable collections in one museum.
Its facilities include the landmark Main Building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (originally called Fairmount Parkway), the Perelman Building located on the nearby Pennsylvania Avenue, the Rodin Museum on the 2154 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and two 18th-century houses in Fairmount Park, Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove. The construction of Main Building started in 1919, and it wasn't completed until 1928. It was designed by Howell Lewis Shay for the building's plan and Julian Abele for the detail work. The Museum is undergoing an underground building expansion plan to increase about sixty percent of displaying space behind the famous “Rocky Steps”. The construction will take at least a decade from 2006.
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