The Philadelphia Museum of Art at 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway was designed by Horace Trumbauer and the firm Zantzinger, Borie and Medary, with Howell Lewis Shay credited for the plan and massing and Julian Abele for the detail work. The City of Philadelphia owns it, and a nonprofit corporation administers it. The cornerstone was laid in 1919, and it was completed in 1928.
The article calls the facade Greek Revival. The museum is built of dolomite quarried in Minnesota. A vaulted walkway is 640 feet (200 m) long, and a planned underground expansion would add 80,000 square feet (7,400 m²). Twenty galleries opened on March 26, 1928.
The museum closed for COVID-19 in March 2020 and reopened in late September 2020. It holds over 240,000 objects and had 793,000 visitors in 2017 according to the infobox. The article gives no hours or ticket details.
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