What to expect:
The Philadelphia Pass grants you free admission to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Your Philadelphia Museum of Art tickets get you admission for 2 consecutive days to the Museum’s main building, Perelman Building, Rodin Museum, and historic houses Cedar Grove (seasonal) and Mount Pleasant.

Exhibition highlights:

• Unlimited: Painting in France in the 1960s & 1970s: learn all about how French artists challenged conventional painting techniques and concepts during a time of widespread political and economic unrest.
• By Hand: The Collection of Dr. Charles W. Nichols: see examples from artists such as Kate Malone, Rupert Spira, Magdalene Odundo, and more that highlight the British studio pottery movement.
• Textured material: Korean Contemporary art: a focus on art that borrows ideas of sculpture, furniture, and installation art with wire twist ties, a Confucian text, and mother-of-pearl.
• Painting from Renaissance Venice: explore works of art that highlight the rich cultural movement that took place in Venice, Italy during the Renaissance.
• Designing Japan: see how much of Japanese art is derived from a sheer delight in form, surface, and pattern through this collection of Japanese art made of materials such as bamboo, lacquer, wood, clay, metal, and fiber.

• Innovative and Exotic: French Ceramics 1860-1910: explore trends of French ceramics in the second half of the century and see how some Asian art influenced French ceramics of the time.
• The Cadwaladers of Philadelphia: Portraits of a Family: learn all about the Cadwalader family, whose lives and accomplishments were deeply involved in the history of both Philadelphia and the US during the 1700s and 1800s.
• And lots more.

Don’t miss:

• Pablo Picasso’s Nous autres musiciens (Three Musicians) 1921
• Vincent van Gogh’s Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, 1889
• Claude Monet’s Poplars (Autumn) 1891
• Pierre-August Renoir’s The Large Bathers 1887
• Claude Monet’s Japanese Bridge and Water Lilies 1899
• Paul Cézanne’s The Bathers 1898-1905
• Marcel Duchamp’s La sonate (Sonata) 1911
• And many more iconic works of art by internationally recognized artists from past to present.

Tips for visiting:

• Enhance your Philadelphia Museum of Art ticket by subscribing to the Museum’s free audio podcasts. Listen to the podcasts to learn more about the exhibitions, take a self-guided tour, listen to relevant lectures, and more.
• Artwork is periodically moved off view and galleries close for periods of time for various reasons, ask at the front desk about any specific artwork or galleries.
• Connect to the museum’s free WiFi when you get there.
• Backpacks and large bags muse be checked when you arrive, visitors may not carry them around the exhibits.
• No flash photography is allowed (photos with no flash are permitted).
• If you wish to sketch, you must use pencil only and sketchbooks may not exceed 18 x 24 inches in size.

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