Philadelphia Museum of Art (1)

We walked up the Rocky steps to the East Entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as fine and confident a statement of beaux arts neoclassicism as it is possible to imagine.   The Museum was founded in 1876, the year of the Centennial, the new building first planned in 1907, construction beginning in 1919, and opened on 26 March 1928:-

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