Philadelphia Museum of Art

At the south end of Fairmount Park is the prominently situated Philadelphia Museum of Art, approached by a broad flight of steps, which has one of the largest art collections in the United States, with some 300,000 exhibits, many of them presented by various foundations. Among the finest sections of the museum are the medieval galleries, which include pictures by Rogier van der Weyden and the van Eyck brothers and complete structures such as a Romanesque cloister and a Gothic chapel.

In other rooms are Renaissance and Baroque works and art of the 18th and 19th centuries, including pictures by Van Gogh, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Cezanne, Monet and Degas. 20th century European art is represented by Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, Miro, Paul Klee and other artists, American art by the Philadelphia artists Thomas Eakins, Charles Wilson Peale ("The Staircase Group", 1795) and many others. There are also fine collections of Asian art, including a Buddhist and a Chinese temple, porcelain, jade and Oriental carpets.
The museum opened in 1876 in a neoclassical building. It houses a comprehensive collection of artwork, divided into these sections: American Art (including the most important collection in the world of works by Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins); Costume and Textiles (including a celebrated collection of Oriental carpets); East Asian and Middle Eastern Art;

European Decorative Arts and Sculpture (including Arms and Armor, and a suit of eighteenth-century French interiors); European Paintings Before 1900; Indian and Himalayan Art; Prints, Drawings and Photographs; Twentieth-Century Art (including works by Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and Duchamp).