ARTS & CULTURE Fine Art With the first art museum in the U.S. and the world’s largest private collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modern paintings, Philadelphia is an art lover’s paradise. TO One of the country’s oldest art museums, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is recognized as one of the finest, opening for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the first official World’s Fair in the U.S. PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ©Adobe Stock THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS (PAFA) ©K. Privitera BARNES FOUNDATION ©M. Moran The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) was founded in 1805 as the first art school and art museum in the country. From humble means, Dr. Albert Barnes became a medical doctor, invented a life-saving antiseptic, and used his wealth to amass a ground-breaking, world-renowned collection of art that became known as the Barnes Foundation . 25 DiscoverPHL.com
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