Philadelphia Museum of Art

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

Location

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

History

1876 ​​was the World's Fair ( Centennial Exposition ) to commemorate the 100 - year celebration of the United States in Philadelphia instead. This exhibition led to the idea of the museum was founded in the same year. Model for the museum was the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which had also emerged from a World's Fair ( 1851). Already on 10 May 1877, the museum opened its doors for the first time. The current museum was started in 1919 in the antique style as a three -wing building and completed in some areas 1928. Currently, additional underground gallery spaces are planned.

Collections

The museum houses one of America's largest and most important collections. Images of European painting almost all schools are equally represented as American paintings. The museum has the largest collection of Philadelphia -born painter Thomas Eakins. Sculptures from antiquity to modern times, are displayed alongside art of the Near and Middle East. Priorities are also the departments of Asian art, crafts, clothing and textiles. In addition, there is a collection of photographs, and the so-called period rooms. Here the original devices are shown by houses from Europe, Asia and America. For example, a cloister of a monastery in France was built in the museum. The museum belonging Rodin Museum possesses after the Musée Rodin, the second largest collection of the artist. In neighboring Fairmont Park show several houses the American living culture in the 18th and early 19th century in a kind of open air museum. Numerous temporary exhibitions annually attract a large audience.

Jan van Eyck The Stigmatization of St. Francis

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 the steps of the great staircase of the museum took place with a stake of 1,000,000 guests one of the Live 8 concerts on 2 July 2005. The museum building was used for several movies as a backdrop: Philadelphia, mannequin and a few Rocky movies. It applies to many visitors and fans of the Philadelphia Rocky movies now as a ritual, as well as Rocky running up the steps of the museum and to cheer.