Philadelphia is filled with wonderful museums and art galleries to explore, here are a few of the exciting exhibits that are on view now or coming soon around the region.
HARRY POTTER – THE EXHIBITION
Harry Potter: The Exhibition is now open at The Franklin Institute and promises to be “the most comprehensive touring exhibition ever presented about the Wizarding World.” With its World Premiere underway in Philadelphia, the experience invites wizards, witches, and muggles of all ages to explore a collection of authentic film props and costumes along with plenty of spellbinding surprises.
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EXTREME DEEP: MISSION TO ABYSS
Extreme Deep: Mission to Abyss is on view at the Academy of Natural Sciences. It reveals the mysteries of the ocean’s greatest depths. Visitors get the chance to explore newly discovered life forms, bubbling thermal vents, deep-sea research submersibles, and shipwrecks including the Titanic. Guests will learn about the amazing creatures that thrive in total darkness, as well as the technology that only recently has allowed scientists to travel to the ocean floor in order to discover creatures no one knew existed. Extreme Deep: Mission to the Abyss will be on view through July 24, 2022.
LIBERTY: DON TROIANI’S PAINTINGS OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Liberty: Don Troiani’s Paintings of the Revolutionary War brings together over 45 paintings by renowned historical painter — and alum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — Don Troiani, whose career has been dedicated to recreating scenes from the Revolutionary War by referencing sources, archaeology, artifacts, and additional research. The works, which are on public display together for the first time in the Museum of the American Revolution‘s Patriots Gallery, are paired with artifacts that either inspired or are featured in Troiani’s paintings, including weapons, textiles, and more, presenting viewers with a one-of-a-kind snapshot of key moments from the war. The paintings of the Revolutionary War by Liberty: Don Troiani are on view through September 5, 2022.
THE FUTURE WILL FOLLOW THE PAST: AN EXHIBITION
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History reopened on May 13, 2022, with a special exhibition called The Future Will Follow the Past: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz. The exhibit will explore the transformative changes America has experienced since 2020, as well as the issues the country has been grappling with for decades, including antisemitism, racial violence, immigration, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights and more. The exhibit also offers new perspectives on history and raises questions related to themes, ideas, and events found in The Weitzman’s core exhibition, which interprets over 360 years of American Jewish life. The Future Will Follow the Past: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz will be on view through December 2022.
OPENING FALL 2022
MATISSE IN THE 1930S
OCTOBER 20, 2022–JANUARY 29, 2023
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris and the Musée Matisse Nice, will present the first exhibition ever dedicated to the pivotal decade of the 1930s in the art of Henri Matisse (1869–1954), one of the giants of twentieth-century art.
