Exhibitions in Philadelphia

Mütter Museum

Marking America's 250th birthday, this show traces the origins of American pharmacy and botanical medicine in the city that called itself the birthplace of American medicine.

Independence Seaport Museum

Around 150 rarely seen objects trace how the young United States, cut off from British trade after the Revolution, turned east to China and built itself into a global economic power.

Mütter Museum

How making art became a formal clinical practice, from 1940s pioneers to today's 8,000 credentialled art therapists — and the work patients made along the way.

Barnes Foundation

A site-specific installation of 11 new video, photography and text works by Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band), interrogating American histories and Indigenous homelands in the Annenberg Court.

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Retells the Lewis and Clark expedition through Indigenous ecological knowledge, pairing the Academy's historic Lewis and Clark Herbarium specimens with contemporary Native voices.

Mütter Museum

Two centuries of medical trade ephemera show how jingles, patient testimonials and celebrity endorsements taught medicine to sell itself.

Museum of the American Revolution

Over 120 artifacts, including six historic printings of the Declaration of Independence, trace how its promise of liberty travelled the world from 1776 to today.

Rodin Museum

Fifteen bronzes and plasters, many rare or unique to Philadelphia, trace Rodin's obsession with the expressive hand, from The Cathedral and The Hand of God to Two Hands.