The Philadelphia Museum Of Art With The Famous "Rocky Steps", Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Editorial Image

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located west of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, was created in 1876 in connection with the Centennial Exposition of that same year and is today located among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. It was originally called the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. Its founding was inspired by the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London, which grew out of the Great Exhibition of 1851.