Discover Visual Fun in Philadelphia Museum Of Art: See What You Can Find

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the States and is located in the west end of Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Established in the year 1876 for commemorating the Centennial Exposition, the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, the building was refurbished and renovated in the year 1919. The institution houses more than 200 galleries spanning for nearly 2000 years depicting Egyptian, Roman and Pre-Columbian art. The university loaned Chinese porcelain and Egyptian pieces of art are displayed during special exhibitions.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Some of the exhibitions and events that has been happening for nearly more than 25 years are those ranging from single artist retrospective to historical surveys to focuses presentations, featuring some of the most classic and excellent masterpieces for loans around the world. The current exhibitions to happen are Late Renoir, Masterpiece restored and others on the row.

Exhibitions in Philadelphia Museum of Art

http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/

The museum has collections that are more than 225, 000 objects with spanning achievements of the Western world, since the first century AD, those of Asia from the millennium BC. Many of the collections belong to the European Medieval period with expanding collections of modern and contemporary art until today. When you go around the museum on a self-guided tour or planned tours you will get to know more from one of the audio recordings behind every collection held in the museum. Every time you visit, you will be finding something new to learn that you would have missed out in the last visit.

Collections in Philadelphia Museum of Art

http://www.phillymuseumofart.com/collections/

The art museum also holds a number of contests of which, the current one that is to be held recently is the Photography portfolio competition for the year 2010, which will be containing photos of the various photos making a portfolio to be published and sold.

Contests in the museum

http://www.pmaphotocompetition.org/about.php