Exhibitions in Philadelphia

Mütter Museum

The museum's popular Frankenstein pop-up returns for spooky season, on view on select Saturdays from September through November.

Barnes Foundation

Sculpture and design by six Japanese American artists — Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima, Leo Amino, S. Neil Fujita, Kay Sekimachi and Ruth Asawa — whose work reshaped modern American design after WWII incarceration.

Woodmere Art Museum

Woodmere's first retrospective of Moe Brooker (1940–2022), from 1960s realism to rainbow patchwork abstractions swept with calligraphic marks, plus sculpture, weavings and personal material.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia · Free

ICA's relaunched biannual platform for moving-image work by Delaware Valley artists, screened on the mezzanine across a fall and a spring season.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia · Free

Group exhibition on solidarity across Black, African and Chinese diasporic networks, with video, installation, prints and archival works by nine artists.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia · Free

ICA's inaugural R+D residency: Wilmer Wilson IV takes the eastern gray squirrel as a lens on American ecologies and colonial history, in installation, sculpture and performance.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia · Free

A two-channel video made during a residency at a Philadelphia recycling centre, staging performative vignettes choreographed by discarded materials.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia · Free

Yurok artist Saif Azzuz fills ICA's Sansom Street windows with abstract graphics drawn from research into Philadelphia's natural history.

National Constitution Center · Free

Free show with Drexel University on how Penn's 1681 "holy experiment" and the planned city of Philadelphia shaped American civic habits, with Atwater Kent artefacts and student-built map and timeline interactives.

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.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia's answer to the Arts and Crafts movement after the 1876 Centennial, with needlework, Enfield Pottery ceramics and furniture by Wharton Esherick and Samuel Yellin.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Two of Van Gogh's Sunflowers hang side by side: the 1888 canvas on loan from the National Gallery, London, and the museum's own 1889 version.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Work by the emerging and established artists who rent PAFA studios, hold shop memberships and take Continuing Education critiques, the working community around the Academy.

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.

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.

Mütter Museum

250 years of Philadelphia's impact on how Americans have learned, taught, practised and experienced medicine, told through the College's own archive.

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.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum · Free

Works by around two dozen international artists treat tapestry as a conceptual space, weighing authenticity, slow labour against technological speed, and how to depict vastness.

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.

Woodmere Art Museum

Marking America's 250th anniversary, this show traces how Philadelphia artists have imagined "America" as an idea, from the founding era to the present.

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.

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.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Plaster casts and cast drawings spanning more than 140 years, showing how classical models have underpinned training at America's oldest art school since 1805.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Eight interdisciplinary artists pair finished prints with the working materials behind them, showing the PrintLab residency as an incubator for traditional printmaking and emerging technologies alike.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Unfinished paintings, sketches and studies from PAFA's permanent collection, treating incompletion not as failure but as evidence of experiment and material process.

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.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Prominent American artists who studied or taught at PAFA, from traditional realism to contemporary practice, tracing the visual languages the school has produced since 1805.

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.