About the museum
The story of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art was founded in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition, and its Greek-temple building at the end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway opened in 1928.
Its paintings include a major group of Cézanne, Van Gogh, Renoir and the American painter Thomas Eakins, together with an important Duchamp collection.
The collection
The museum holds more than 240,000 objects. Its European paintings include Rogier van der Weyden's Crucifixion diptych, Rubens's Prometheus Bound and a great Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection.
It has the largest collection of works by Marcel Duchamp, including his last work Étant donnés, and an important collection of American art, with the Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins.
At ArtLogia you can order 115 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 79 artists led by Gustave Courbet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet.
- paintings to order
- 115
- artists
- 79
- art movements
- 17
- years covered
- 1320–1937
The building
The museum's Greek Revival building, designed by Horace Trumbauer and the firm of Zantzinger, Borie and Medary, opened in 1928 on Fairmount hill. Frank Gehry's renovation, completed in 2021, opened new public spaces beneath the building.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
Its front steps are the famous 'Rocky Steps'; the view of the city skyline from the top is worth the climb.
