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Interesting places in Philadelphia:Philadelphia is one of the oldest and most historically significant cities in the United States. During part of the 18th century, the city was the first capital and most populous city of the United States, and the second largest English speaking city in the world after London. At that time, it eclipsed Boston and New York City in political and social importance, with Benjamin Franklin taking a large role in Philadelphia's rise.
Public Art
Much of Philadelphia's art requires not a dollar to see and not a building to enter. Philadelphia has the largest collection of public art in America, courtesy of the city's innovative Mural Arts Program , designed to stop graffiti and enliven the city's buildings.
Other public art of note includes the many glass mosaics found throughout the city; a sampling of this great public art can be seen on South Street east of Broad.
Finally, center city Philadelphia offers two public statue displays. "The Kiss" is a sculpture that resembles a clothespin (and indeed is nicknamed "The Clothespin" by locals) located just across from City Hall on West Market Street. LOVE Park, serving as a terminus between City Hall and the museum-laden Benjamin Franklin Parkway, features a famous LOVE statue that has come to represent the brotherly love that Philadelphia was founded on. The site once was the city's (and perhaps the nation's) most popular skating attraction until new legislation and remodeling efforts outlawed skating in the park.
Museums
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, (215) 763-8100. Open Tuesdays-Sundays 10AM-5PM, with hours extended to 8:45PM on Fridays. Famous on the outside for the steps seen in the film "Rocky" and famous on the inside for one of the world's largest collections of art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is home to many rotating collections as well as a standard selection of pieces always on display. In 2007 the PMA will have the only US showing of Renoir Landscapes, and in 2008 an exhibition of Frida Kahlo's work will be on display. In addition, the PMA is opening a new exhibition space in the Perelman Building on Pennsylvania Ave which will display sculpture, costumes, textiles, prints, photographs, and design. Admission is $14 for adults, $12 for seniors, and $10 for students with a valid school ID. There is a AAA discount of $1 for adults. Sundays at the museum are pay what you wish, and you have to pay something.
- Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, (215) 299-1000, . Open 10AM until 4:30PM on weekdays, 10AM until 5PM on weekends and holidays. Not just a natural history museum, this institution also has an active research arm and library. Highlights of the museum include a 2-story dinosaur exhibit, a butterfly walk-through area, and a children's nature center with live animals. Past special exhibits have included exhibits on chocolate in the summer of 2004, and the Lewis and Clark National Bicentennial Exhibition starting in November 2004. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for children, seniors, military and students with valid ID. Show your AAA card for $1 off admission per person.
- The African-American Museum in Philadelphia, 701 Arch St., (215) 574-0380. Open 10AM until 5PM Tuesday through Saturday. Built to preserve, intrepret, and exhibit achievements of African Americans. The museum charges an admission fee of $8 per adult and $6 per child, senior citizen or physically challenged person.
- Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia History, 15 S. 7th Street, (215) 685-4830. The museum is open between 1PM and 5PM Wednesday through Sunday. This museum, "where history inspires the future," is located just around the corner from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, features a hands-on and comprehensive history of America's "birthplace" and founding city. Unique to the museum is a "walkable" map of the region on the floor of the museum. In minutes, you can walk between suburban Montgomery County and the heart of Philadelphia in center city! Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and children 13 - 17 years old, and free for children under 12 years of age. Open 5-8 p.m. on the first Friday of the month, free to the public.
- Independence Seaport Museum, Penn's Landing, (215) 925-5439. Open daily 10AM to 5PM. This museum has lots of interesting displays regarding the maritime history of Philadelphia, from colonial times through the days of slave-trading to the Industrial Revolution. Highlights include a mockup of a navigation room and a place where you can view woodworkers handcrafting rowboats. The museum has some great views of the Delaware River and the Ben Franklin Bridge. Admission $9, $6 children, $8 seniors and students.
- The Franklin Institute Science Museum, 222 N. 20th Street, (215) 448-1200. Open daily 9:30AM. to 5PM, closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve & Day, and New Year's Day. This museum attracts some of the top scientific exhibits in the world, including the Titanic Artifacts exhibit, an upcoming exhibit of the Egyptian Treasures found in King Tut's tomb, and of course the 300th birthday celebration of Ben Franklin himself, which will be in 2006. Be sure to walk through the giant-sized human heart, a favorite with kids. This museum is incredibly popular with as a field trip destination for local schools, so be advised that mornings and early afternoons on weekdays may be crowded with schoolchildren. Base admission $13.75 for adults, $11 for children 4-11 years old and senior citizens.
- The Mutter Museum, 19 S. 22nd Street, (215) 563-3737. Open 10AM to 5PM everyday except Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Originally open only to medical students, this collection of medial oddities is quickly becoming one of the city's most popular attractions. Not for the faint of heart, this museum includes lots of items in formaldhyde, lots of skeletons, and one of the only men to ever decompose into soap. $12 General admission, $8 for children 6-18, senior citizens, and college students.
- The Please Touch Museum, 210 N. 21st Street, (215) 963-0667. Open 9AM to 4:30PM daily, closed on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. A fantastic place to take young children. As the name says, everyone is encouraged to touch the exhibits. Admission $9.95.
- The National Museum of American Jewish History, 55 N. 5th Street, (215) 923-3811.
- Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. If you're into rare books at all, take the free tour, offered at 11 a.m. Mon-Fri, of the Philadelphia Free Library's amazing rare book collection. Besides the Gutenberg Bible, highlights include medieval manuscripts, children's book illustrations, and the stuffed body of Dickens's pet raven Grip, the raven who inspired "The Raven."
- Rosenbach Museum and Library, 2008 DeLancey, (215) 732-1600 . Hourly tours (Tues-Fri, 11-4) take visitors through this fine old townhouse owned by a pair of rare-book dealers, which has grown into a museum and archive. The Maurice Sendak room, full of his sketches and pages, also contains Herman Melville's own bookcase, which holds the copy of Moby-Dick he inscribed to Hawthorne. A handsome double library on another floor holds Joyce's manuscript for Ulysses. On the top floor, poet Marianne Moore's Greenwich Village living room has been installed, to go along with the Rosenbach's trove of Moore papers.
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Located on South Street between 32nd and 33rd Streets, this museum houses an impressive collection of Egyptian and Greco-Roman artifacts.
Theater and Music
- The Philadelphia Orchestra One of the most famous and widely traveled orchestras in the world. Performs in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
- Kimmel Center, 260 S. Broad Street, (215) 893-1999 box office. Showcases a variety of performing arts from chamber music, dance, drama, orchestral, jazz & pop.
- The Mask and Wig Club, 310 S. Quince Street, Mask and Wig has presented comedy, music, and dancing to the University of Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia and to audiences across the country since 1889 and is a legend amongst Philadelphia theatre-goers.
- The Khyber, 56 S. 2nd Street, A storied home of many Philadelphia indie acts, The Khyber is an Old City attraction that can't be missed by music enthusiasts
- Tower Theatre Located on 69th Street in Upper Darby, the Tower Theater is located just across from the last stop on the westbound Market-Frankford Line. Originally a Great Depression-era movie theater, the venue is now home to some of the biggest names in music and showbusiness each year.
- The Trocadero Located at 1003 Arch Street. Typically features indie/alternative acts and local acts.
- Theatre of the Living Arts (The TLA). Located between on South Street between 3rd and 4th Streets. The TLA is a smaller, more intimate venue that often features a good mix of national acts (recently Yellowcard) and local musicians.
- The Electric Factory Located at 421 North 7th Street.
- Academy of Music Located at Broad and Locust Streets. The Academy is the oldest grand opera house in the United States still being used for its original purpose. The Academy also provides the Philadelphia area with interesting and popular concerts, ballets, broadway shows, and other events. Tours of the Academy, focusing on its inspiring history and current renovations, are available by contacting the manager's office.
- The World Cafe Live Located at 3025 Walnut Street. World Life Cafe offers an eclectic offering of concerts, from jazz to rock, from locally and nationally-renowned artists.
- R5 Productions Shows are at several venues.
Interesting Historic Sites
- Eastern State Penitentiary "America's Most Historic Prison." It is also the site of an annual Bastille Day recreation.
- Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site The former home of the famous American author of mystery and the macabre.
- Fairmount Water Works Features information on local watersheds as well as interpretive art.
- Independence National Historic Park Philadelphia's signature historic site features the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Constitution Hall (home of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution). It also features historic buildings from the city's revolutionary past, approximately 20 of which are open to the public.
Parks
- Fairmount Park Technically, Fairmount Park covers all of the city parks in Philadelphia, but the name also refers more specifically to the large park on both sides of the Schuykill River northwest of Center City, which is the largest urban park in the United States.
- Clark Park Located at 43rd & Chester, Clark Park is an outdoor music and arts festival area in West Philadelphia.
- LOVE Park (formally, JFK Plaza) is a square near City Hall, known for it's Robert Indiana "LOVE" sculpture (dating to the American Bicentennial) and for attracting skateboarders from around the world (despite a ban on skating in the park). Since 2002, this ban has been rigorously enforced (and the park renovated to discourage skateboarders). access is now available in the park.
- Rittenhouse Square. One (southwest) of William Penn's original "five squares" of public, open space in the city, Rittenhouse Square sits among classic and classy Rittenhouse hotels and residences and attracts people from around the world. As part of the Wireless Philadelphia initiative, the park is now completely blanketed in Wireless internet access.
- Washington Square (southeast), Franklin Square (northeast), Logan Circle (northwest), and City Hall (center) make up the other four original "squares" created by William Penn. Four of the five squares (one now a circle) are somewhat symmetrically located at the four corners of an imaginary square surrounding the very center of Center City Philadelphia, now occupied by City Hall. The center of City Hall's Square is a large compass in the ground. There are four archways leading into it. Logan Circle is considered the gateway to Fairmount Park and the Art Museum area. Washington Square is near Independence Hall. Franklin Square is seen mainly from cars approaching the Ben Franklin Bridge to Camden, NJ and rarely by pedestrians.
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Vintage Postcard image of the Ben Franklin Bridge spanning the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Canden, NJ. Additional Bridge Photos, Postcard Images and Bridge Blog at www.Bridgepix.com The Benjamin Franklin Bridge (also known simply as the Ben Franklin Bridge), originally named the Delaware River Bridge, is a suspension bridge across the Delaware River connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey. Named for American statesman Benjamin Franklin, the bridge is owned and operated by the Delaware River Port Authority. The chief engineer was Ralph Modjeski, its design engeineer was Leon Moisseiff and the supervising architect was Paul Philippe Cret. At its completion on July 1, 1926, its 533-metre span made it the world's longest suspension bridge, a distinction it would hold until the opening of the Ambassador Bridge in 1929. The bridge currently carries highways I-676 and US 30, the latter since its opening or very soon thereafter. Before the 1953 New Jersey State Highway renumbering, Route 25, Route 43 and Route 45 ended in the middle of the bridge. The bridge also carries the PATCO Speedline rail line via connecting tunnels on both sides of the bridge. Pedestrian walkways run along both sides of the bridge, elevated over and separated from the vehicular lanes; of these, only one is open at a time. Walkway hours are 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. during daylight savings time). The DRPA temporarily closed the walkways to the public the day after the 7 July 2005 London bombings, citing security concerns. The DRPA also closes the walkway after snowfall. The seven vehicular lanes are divided by a concrete zipper barrier, which can be mechanically moved to configure the lanes for traffic volume or construction. Tolls ($3 for passenger cars) are charged only in the westbound, Camden-to-Philadelphia direction. Prior to addition of the zipper barrier, the bridge was barrier-less -- lanes were lit green or red to indicate whether they were open or closed, and they changed daily to accomodate rush hour traffic. Along with the Betsy Ross, Walt Whitman, and Tacony-Palmyra Bridges, the Benjamin Franklin is one of four primary bridges between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey. The Commodore Barry Bridge in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and the Burlington-Bristol Bridge in Bucks County, Pennsylvania connect suburban Philadelphia with southern New Jersey. (Wikipedia)
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