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Delicate Decline, 1972, Private collection, Chicago
Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective
Through June 1,
Morgan, Korman, and Field Galleries (Galleries 150-155), Main Building
The installation illuminates Christina Ramberg's work on gender, sexuality, and female beauty.
Winning the Battle of Production, 1943, by Hugo Gellert
Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s
April 12–September 1,
Dorrance Galleries, Main Building
This exhibition is a testament to the creative spirit that flourished despite the restrictions and adversity of the 1940s.
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, c. 1860
Staged: Studio Photographs from the Collection
Through June 29,
Honickman, Galleries 156-157, Main Building
This exhibition explores the relationship between the photographer and their subjects within the studio.
Royal hat with chameleons, Yoruba artist, Nigeria, cotton, glass beads, fiber, c. 1920, BRN-22
Head to Toe: African and Asian Wearables from the Ira and Myrna Brind Collection
Opening May 9, 2025,
Penny and Bob Fox Hall, Main Building
This exhibition explores how prestige and value are expressed through Asian and African wearables.
Shelf X / B&B Italia
Naoto Fukasawa: Things in Themselves
Through April 20,
Collab Gallery 219, Main Building
This exhibition will honor the work of Japanese product designer Naoto Fukasawa, recipient of the 2024 Collab Design Excellence Award.
Mushrooms, c. 1932, Wanda Gág (American, 1893–1946), 1952-32-641
Wanda Gág: Art for Life’s Sake
Open now,
Korman Galleries 221-223, Main Building
This exhibition will present the PMA’s unrivaled holdings of Gág's drawings for the first time.
Salted paper print from a collodion on glass negative of a three people at the Chateay de la Faloise.
Informal Moments: Portraits from Photography’s First Decade
Through March 2025,
Gallery 256, Main Building
This installation brings together a group of early photographic portraits.
An opaque watercolor with gold and silver on a paper, depicting a demon kidnapping an infant.
Mythical, Divine, Demonic: Animal Imagery in South Asian Art
Ongoing,
Gallery 327, Main Building
Explore how animal imagery has taken on various forms to gain a deeper understanding of South Asian visual culture.
A ceramic lobed shape dish with a breaking waves pattern on the border with a blue flower and cabbage leaves at the center.
Firing the Imagination: Japanese Influence on French Ceramics, 1860-1910
Through August 17,
Gallery 251, Main Building
This exhibition brings together notable examples of French ceramics that demonstrate tremendous innovation in the field of artistic pottery from the 1860s to 1910s.
Embroidered self portrait of Wei Wei as a mythical Chinese creature.
Mythical Creatures: China and the World
Through June 1,
Galleries 321, 326 & 339, Main Building
Mythical Creatures: China and the World will explore the theme of diversity by comparing mythical creatures from different cultures.
Strange Fruit, 1992–97, by Zoe Leonard
Zoe Leonard: Strange Fruit
Ongoing,
Gallery 271, Main Building
Experience a room dedicated to the work of Zoe Leonard reflecting on mortality and transformation.
A decorative object that uses Japanese basket weaving techniques to depict a giant sea swell.
Collecting Japanese Art in Philadelphia
Ongoing,
Galleries 341, 342 & 343, Main Building
This installation highlights the art, artists and collectors that shaped the museum's collection of Japanese art.
Dakar I (detail), 1969, by Sam Gilliam
Expanded Painting in the 1960s and 1970s
Ongoing,
Edna and Stanley Tuttleman Gallery 274, Main Building
Explore radical innovations in painting made during a period marked by social and political unrest.
<i>In the Luxembourg Gardens</i> (detail), 1879, by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
European Galleries
Ongoing,
Galleries of European Art 1850–1900, 2nd floor, Main Building
Experience our collection of Impressionist art like never before in our newly refreshed and reinstalled European galleries.
Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale I) (detail), 1795, by Charles Willson Peale
Early American Galleries
Ongoing,
McNeil Galleries 100–108, Main Building
The story of how Philadelphia became the young nation’s cultural capital.
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936, Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989), 1950-134-41
Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100
November 8, 2025–February 16, 2026,
Dorrance Galleries, Main Building
This exhibition features works by Salvador Dalí, Rene Margitte, Joan Miro, and more in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Surrealism movement.
Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic) (detail), 1875, by Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916), 2007-1-1
The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins
Through spring 2026,
Gallery 211, Main Building
Thomas Eakins’s masterpiece—a monumental achievement and local favorite—returns to the museum.
Musicians on Horseback, 7th century, made in China
Chinese Galleries
Ongoing,
Galleries 326 & 333–336, Main Building
Rediscover four thousand years of the art of China in our newly reimagined and reinstalled Chinese galleries.
<i>Liberation of the Peon</i> (detail), 1931, by José Diego María Rivera (Mexican, 1886–1957), 1943-46-1. © 2014 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Diego Rivera: Frescoes
Ongoing,
Black and Gallos Gallery 273, Main Building
Experience recently reinstalled monumental frescoes depicting revolutionary imagery from the artist’s Mexican mural cycles.
Tile Mosaic Panel</i>, 16th century, made in Iran, 1931-76-1
Arts of the Islamic World
Ongoing,
Main Building
Exquisite examples of artwork made for and by Muslims over the centuries.
Ceremonial Teahouse: Sunkaraku (Evanescent Joys), c. 1917, designed by Ōgi Rodō
Collection Highlight: Ceremonial Teahouse
Ongoing,
SmithKline Beecham Gallery 344, 3rd floor, Main Building
Learn more about our Japanese teahouse, a quiet spot for calm and solitude.
Pillared Temple Hall, 1560, made in India
Collection Highlight: Temple Hall
Ongoing,
Caplan Gallery 324, 3rd floor, Main Building
Visit the museum’s reconstruction of a historic temple hall, featuring nearly sixty carvings from South India.
<i>Portrait (Dulcinea)</i> (detail), 1911, by Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887–1968), 1950-134-54. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Succession Marcel Duchamp
Duchamp Galleries
Ongoing,
Gallery 281 & d’Harnoncourt Gallery 282, Main Building
Our renowned Marcel Duchamp holdings return home after a yearlong exhibition tour in the Asia-Pacific region.
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