Philly’s Best Upcoming Museum Exhibits
Upcoming museum exhibits in Philadelphia have a wide range of content that includes ancient Egyptian relics, early British and French photography, and historic Japanese imagery. Looking to the best local institutions, these are what we are most excited to see.
Ancient Egypt: From Discovery To Display
at Penn Museum
Opens February 23
Check out this one-of-a-kind exhibit on ancient Egypt at the Penn Museum this winter and spring. Th exhibit focuses on how objects like mummies and other historical artifacts from the ground to impressive museum collections like that on view at the Penn Museum.
Penn Museum. 3260 South St.
From Today, Painting Is Dead: Early Photography in Britain and France
at Barnes Foundation
February 24 – May 12
This is only the second photography exhibition at the famous Barnes Foundation, and it will feature nearly 250 iconic photographs from Britain and France in the mid 1800s. The exhibit follows production of some of the earliest photographs out there all the way to the invention of Kodak’s first point-and-shoot.
Barnes Foundation. 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
The Impressionist’s Eye
at Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 16 – August 18
Focusing on the work of iconic impressionist oil painters like Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent van Gogh, this upcoming exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum looks at their dabblings in other mediums like sculpture, and drawing.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Yoshitoshi: Spirit and Spectacle
At Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 16 – August 18
Looking at historic Japanese artist Yoshitoshi, this exhibit shows how he was conventional in his beliefs and groundbreaking with his art. His vivid images paralleled a fast modernization of Japan late in the 1800s.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Etch & Flow: Waterscapes by American Painter-Etchers
at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
This will be a partner exhibition with From Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic, and a satellite installation with prints from artists who comprised the American Etching Revival.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 118-128 N Broad St.