Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is one of the largest in the United States. It contains more than 227,000 exhibits of Far Eastern and American art, collections of drawings, engravings, ceramics, fabrics, glass, carpets. More than 800,000 people visit the museum every year.

The museum was founded in 1876 in connection with the World Exhibition. In 1919, by the decision of the city authorities, a new building was built for the museum in the style of neoclassicism, popularly nicknamed the "Great Greek Garage".

The expositions of the museum present exhibits of Far Eastern and American art of the XIII-XX centuries: drawings, engravings, ceramics, fabrics, carpets. More than 227,000 samples in total. The special pride of the Philadelphia Museum is the works of Pennsylvania artists, as well as paintings of the Modern Times. In front of the museum there is a square, in the center of which a horse sculpture with J. Washington rises on a pedestal. Every year, the museum hosts more than 25 specialized exhibitions, attracting thousands of people from all over the world.