Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Main entrance to the museum
Main entrance to the museum
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place Philadelphia
Art
Art museum
opening 1876
Number of visitors (annually) approx. 800,000
management
Timothy Rub
Website

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum in Philadelphia , USA .

Location and surroundings

The museum is located at the west end of Benjamin Franklin Parkway on a hill in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. In addition to the actual museum building, the neighboring Rodin Museum and the Fairmount Park Houses also belong to the museum.

history

1876 was World Exhibition ( Centennial Exhibition ) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the US instead of in Philadelphia. This exhibition led to the idea of ​​founding the museum in the same year. The model for the museum was the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , which had also emerged from a world exhibition (1851). The museum opened its doors for the first time on May 10, 1877. Today's museum building was started in cooperation with the architectural offices of Horace Trumbauer and Zantzinger, Borie and Medary from 1919 in the antique architectural style as a three-wing complex and partially completed in 1928. Additional underground gallery spaces are currently being planned.

Collections

The museum houses one of the largest and most important collections in the United States. Pictures of European painting from almost all schools are represented as well as American paintings. The museum has the largest collection by Philadelphia-born painter Thomas Eakins . Sculptures from ancient to modern are exhibited alongside art from the Near and Middle East. The focus is also on the departments for Asian arts, handicrafts, clothing and textiles. There is also a photographic collection and the so-called Period Rooms . Original furnishings from houses from Europe, Asia and America are shown here. For example, a cloister of a monastery from France was built in the museum. The Rodin Museum, which is part of the museum, has the artist's second largest collection after the Musée Rodin in Paris . In the neighboring Fairmont Park, several houses show the American living culture of the 18th and early 19th centuries in a kind of open-air museum . Numerous temporary exhibitions attract a large audience every year.

  • Sandro Botticelli Lorenzo di Ser Piero Lorenzi

  • Jan van Eyck The stigmatization of St. Francis

  • El Greco Pieta

  • Peter Paul Rubens Prometheus bound

  • Thomas Gainsborough River Landscape

  • Edouard Manet Émilie Ambre as Carmen

  • Vincent van Gogh Twelve Sunflowers

  • Paul Cézanne bathers

Others

On July 2, 2005, one of the Live 8 concerts took place on the steps of the large open staircase of the museum with 1,000,000 guests . The museum building served as a backdrop for several movies: Philadelphia , Mannequin and some Rocky films. For many visitors to Philadelphia and fans of the Rocky films, it is now a ritual, just like Rocky, to run up the steps of the museum and cheer.

Web links

Commons : Philadelphia Museum of Art  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philadelphia Museum of Art - Project Chronology. Philadelphia Architects and Buildings, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Retrieved January 31, 2015.

Coordinates: 39 ° 57 ′ 56.3 "  N , 75 ° 10 ′ 51.8"  W.