Art and Museums In Philadelphia - Part 1
There are so many museums in the city, but the largest and most prominent is the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Inside you’ll find several floors of labyrinthine rooms.
Not only can you run up the Rocky steps (there are so many), but on the last Wednesday of the month, they have pay what you want after 5pm. It’s the only day it’s open late. If you love all kinds of art, this is the place for you, but give yourself 3 or more hours. We visited the featured exhibit, which was women’s fashion throughout history (can you tell the difference between the 80s and the 50s or the 70s and 90s). In some cases, the accessories totally made it work.
You’ll find modern art, contemporary, impressionism, surrealism, and everything else you can think of. From Diego Rivera to Picasso to Monet to Manet, there’s almost no great artist left out. But I’ll leave you with my favorite piece done in bronze by Cecioni, which I entitled “Me when I meet a puppy.” I have no idea what’s happening in this piece, but I found it hysterical. I’m not sure if everyone’s happy or no one is happy but it made me happy, and I feel like that’s what I want out of art.
This angle is deceiving. There are these steps (probably 5 sets of 20) and then another set at the top past a courtyard. |
As I said, you can run up the many, many, many steps and do your Rocky pose, or you can drag yourself up the stairs, wonder how you’ve only made it halfway up, and debate rolling back down to find an elevator. We encouraged each other to the top, saying that if the two year old we passed could make it up 10 steps that were half her height, we could make it the rest of the way up.
You can also get your pic taken with a statue of Sylvester Stallone as Rocky at the bottom of the steps in the front of the museum. Every time we passed by, there was a long line, but as we were leaving the museum in the evening, there weren’t any people waiting (not shocking, since it was dark out), so I made Eric take my picture. I’m sorry I didn’t do a “Yo Adrian!” pose. This is all I could muster.
This isn’t the end of Philadelphia’s art, but I feel like it’s enough for one part of a post and I’ll continue with it in the next post. I could easily have filled two posts with just finds from the PMOA. It’s much more fun to explore for yourself though.
Where is your favorite museum?
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