Museum · Philadelphia, Philadelphia County
Wagner Free Institute of Science
Fossils, minerals and mounted animals in original cherry cases fill this Victorian natural history museum, preserved almost unchanged inside its 1865 hall.
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Nearby
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Eastern State Penitentiary
A vast 1829 prison, its cellblocks left in haunting ruin, where Al Capone once served time; now a museum about American justice.
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Fairmount Water Works
Classical temples on the Schuylkill below the art museum that once pumped the city's water, now an interpretive center about the river and its watershed, beside Boathouse Row.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
Climb the famous Rocky Steps to a vast temple of art, with masterpieces from Van Gogh's Sunflowers to Duchamp, a medieval cloister and a Japanese teahouse inside.
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Rodin Museum
Rodin's Thinker greets visitors at the gate and The Gates of Hell frame the entrance to this Beaux-Arts museum and garden on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
The brick house where Edgar Allan Poe lived in the early 1840s, the only one of his city homes to survive, including a cellar that recalls his story The Black Cat.
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Barnes Foundation
Albert Barnes's extraordinary collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse and more, hung as he arranged it.
