The “Avenue of Our Founders,” between Front and Eighth Streets, honors Market Street’s place in Philadelphia history. Also renamed was a portion of Sixth Street between Race and Lombard, now known as the “Avenue of Freedom” to mark sites of black historical significance.
The New York Academy of Medicine invites participants to #ColorOurCollections. The week-long campaign provides access to hundreds of pages of adult coloring books from international museums, archives, and libraries.
The Eik Sande, a 32-foot replica of an ancient Viking ship, was installed in the museum in advance of their new exhibit, Vikings: Beyond the Legend.
Saffron, who pens the Philadelphia Inquirer’s “Changing Skyline” architecture critique column, shares the prize with the Boston Globe’s Robert Campbell.
The archives is now located at Fifth and Spring Garden Streets, within the new, 70,000 square foot Yards Brewing Co. complex.
The grants will support the renovation of the 1928 main building to create ten new galleries for the display and interpretation of the museum’s Early American Art collection.
Tuomi Joshua Forrest will join the organization in Mid-August. Forrest most recently served as the Vice President of Partners for Sacred Spaces.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will temporarily close its popular Egyptian Sphinx gallery for renovation as part of their Building Transformation project.
The museum will close to the public on July 2 after talks for a partnership with Temple University broke down.
Two rare copies of the Declaration of Independence will be displayed in Pennsylvania museums this Summer.