Philadelphia Museum of Art

Yesterday we visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art! The students got a chance to observe some of the paintings and interpret how landscapes were portrayed. Before our trip, the students researched the museum. Here is John's work:

The Philadelphia Museum of Art (built in the early 1870’s, years before the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, which was under construction between 1917-1926) is one of the countries largest museums, and holds some of the worlds most beautiful and renown master pieces, although it wasn’t until the early 1900’s that reconstruction was done to make it into the museum which we see today. The museum was built on a hill at the end of the Benjamin Franklin parkway ( the past location of columns of houses) , and although I can’t say for sure why they originally built it there, it is positioned perfectly as the high light of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The design of the museum which we see today was due to the visual genius of architect Horace Trumbauer and Julian Abele (who finished the designs after Trumbauer’s death.)

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