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Permanent Collection

Spanning one and a half city blocks and three buildings, the museum features more than 4,000 works on display as well as a rooftop terrace and a sculpture garden. Galleries showcase artworks from ancient times to the present, including vessels from Tang-dynasty China, early Italian paintings, textiles from Borneo, treasures of American art, masks from West Africa, modern and contemporary art, ancient sculptures, masterworks by Degas, van Gogh, and Picasso, and more.

Collection Highlights

Fragment of a Male Figure

Human Head

5 Dollars from Philadelphia

Designer: Bela Lyon Pratt (American, 1867–1917, Art School Certificate of Completion, 1888, B.F.A. 1899)
Engraver: Charles E. Barber (American, born England, 1840–1917)
Mint: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)

White Cockatoo

Artist: attributed to Itō Jakuchū (Japanese, 1716–1800)

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