The Penn Museum
The Penn Museum is opening a new exhibit on the meaning behind clothing and fashion as a celebration of apparel and accessories across cultures spanning a 2,500-year period. The exhibit — titled “The Stories...
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
After 15 years of planning, design, and reconstruction, the Philadelphia Museum of Art unveiled its $233 million Frank Gehry transformation late Friday morning with a ribbon cutting outside the newly revamped West entrance. Mayor...
African American Museum in Philadelphia
When the African American Museum in Philadelphia reopens Thursday after more than a year of pandemic shutdown, it will reintroduce Philadelphia and the world to Anna Russell Jones (1902-1995),an overlooked American artist with an...
Please Touch Museum
Like many Philadelphia museums that will be reopening, safety restrictions in place, for the first time since the pandemic began, the Please Touch Museum in Fairmount Park is ready for play again. Every exhibit there revolves...
Museum of the American Revolution
As part of Women’s History Month, the Museum of the American Revolution is hosting a variety of programs about women during the revolutionary period. One program, underway through April 25, is called “When Women...
The Museum of the American Revolution
A Philadelphia museum is looking back on a lesser-known moment in suffrage history as a prelude to the present. The Museum of the American Revolution’s new exhibition, “When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary...
National Constitution Center
Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment on Wednesday. Through 3 p.m., there will be different online activities, including a tour through Facebook Live of the new exhibit...