Exhibitions in Philadelphia

The Fabric Workshop and Museum · Free

Krimes stitches donated clothing from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people into quilts about memory and loss, including Riverside, a new commission made with Mural Arts Philadelphia.

Woodmere Art Museum

Philadelphia painter Thomas Chimes (1921–2009) summoned Hermes, Pan and the Cyclops to push against rational thought; the show reads "wild sight" as both subject and way of looking.

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

An outdoor living demonstration garden on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway planted with species native to Northeastern North America, extending the Botany of Nations story outside.

Woodmere Art Museum

Philadelphia schoolchildren respond to Langston Hughes's poem "I Dream a World" with art imagining a more compassionate future, made with Global Philadelphia Association.

Mütter Museum

Summer 1976: as Philadelphia threw America's Bicentennial party, a deadly unidentified pneumonia struck. The true story of Legionnaires' disease.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

A Morris Gallery monographic show in which Gegenheimer's vivid paintings and mixed-media works treat love, familial and romantic, as an aesthetic and political structure rather than a sentiment.

Mütter Museum

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Twenty-two photogravures reproducing the floor outlines of major museums' visitor maps, questioning the museum as a neutral repository and how its architecture shapes what we see.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

The museum's America-250 centrepiece: over 1,000 works tracing three centuries of American art making, drawn from its own collection and the Middleton Family Collection.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Reopening the Historic Landmark Building for PAFA's 220th anniversary: over 1,000 works from the late 18th century to today, including 100+ pieces from the Middleton Family Collection.

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.