Arts & Culture
19
The Parkway Museums District brings together major cultural, educational, religious, civic, and historic sites in Philadelphia, including Boathouse Row, a center of the United States rowing community; Fairmount Water Works, built between 1819 and 1822 as America’s first water works; the Philadelphia Museum of Art and its Perelman Building; Eastern State Penitentiary, opened in 1829 and once highly influential for its policy of solitary confinement; the Rodin Museum; the Barnes Foundation; the Free Library of Philadelphia; the Franklin Institute Science Museum; Moore College of Art and Design; the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University; the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul; Friends Select School; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Masonic Temple; the Pennsylvania Convention Center, incorporating the former Reading Railroad train shed above Reading Terminal Market; City Hall; and Dilworth Park.
Hear stories like this as you drive
ExploreHere reads historical markers out loud as you pass them: over 325,000 stories across the US. No account needed.
4.7 · 800+ ratings · Free
FIND IT
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States
