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Modeled after the Champs Elysées in Paris, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is a center
of museums and other landmarks.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
MUSEUM
( 215-763-8100;
www.philamuseum.org
; 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy; adult/child $20/free;
10am-5pm Tue, Thu, Sat & Sun, to 8:45pm Wed & Fri)
It's one of the nation's largest and most
important museums, featuring excellent collections of Asian art, Renaissance master-
pieces, post-impressionist works and modern pieces by Picasso, Duchamp and Matisse.
The grand stairway at its entrance was immortalized when Sylvester Stallone ran up the
steps in the 1976 flick
Rocky
. Music, food and wine Friday nights.
Barnes Foundation
MUSEUM
( 866-849-7056;
www.barnesfoundation.org
; 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy; adult/child $18/10;
9:30am-6pm Wed-Mon, to 10pm Fri)
The Barnes Foundation moved from it's original loc-
ation in Merion, PA (the arboretum and archives are still there) to a strikingly contempor-
ary building in May, 2012. An exceptionally fine collection of impressionist, post-im-
pressionist and early French modern paintings, including works by Cézanne, Degas, Ma-
tisse, Monet, Picasso, Renoir and Van Gogh are displayed in the same idiosyncratic and
unconventional arrangement as before; walls are cluttered in the 'gallery style' in accord-
ance with Albert C Barnes' own particular 'objective method' to art education and appre-
ciation.
Rodin Museum
MUSEUM
( 215-763-8100;
www.rodinmuseum.org
;
2154 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy; suggested admission $8;
10am-5pm Wed-Mon)
The newly renovated museum has Rodin's great works
The
Thinker
and
Burghers of Calais.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
MUSEUM
( 215-972-7600;
www.pafa.org
;
118 N Broad St; adult/child $15/free; 10am-5pm Tue-Sat, from
11am Sun)
A prestigious academy that has a museum with works by American painters,
including Charles Willson Peale and Thomas Eakins.
