Skip to content

A guide to navigating the newly renovated Philadelphia Art Museum

Link copied to clipboard
Link copied to clipboard
Exclusive to subscribersYou can now gift articles

A $233 million renovation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art opens to the public on Friday. Here's how to understand the layout of the floors they revamped.

A $233 million Frank Gehry-designed renovation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art focusing on the building’s bottom two floors opens to the public on Friday. The Core Project's goals were to open up the museum’s floor plans, reclaim a ground level that had been closed to the public for decades, and add 20,000 square feet of new gallery space.
A $233 million Frank Gehry-designed renovation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art focusing on the building’s bottom two floors opens to the public on Friday. The Core Project's goals were to open up the museum’s floor plans, reclaim a ground level that had been closed to the public for decades, and add 20,000 square feet of new gallery space.Read moreJOHN DUCHNESKIE / Staff Artist

A $233 million renovation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art opens to the public on Friday. Here's how to understand the layout of the floors they revamped.

Published