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Experience Art

The Taft is home to an impressive art collection displayed in a unique historical setting, rotating exhibitions, and world-famous murals. Plus, you can access the museum’s over 800 works of art online, anytime. 

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Explore and Play

Explore the museum through talks, workshops, tours and more designed for all ages!

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Indulge Your Palate

Enjoy a scrumptious menu including boozy brunch, savory lunch, and grab-and-go coffee and tea service at the Taft Café.  

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More to Discover

Wharton Esherick’s Pennsylvania Hill House: A Design for the 1940 New York World’s Fair

09 April 2025

In 1940, thousands of enthusiastic consumers and curious spectators flocked to the America at Home pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. They admired architects’ and designers’ showrooms, which included contemporary interiors ranging from urban apartments to country retreats. Of the sixteen showrooms, one was a collaboration between the innovative furniture maker Wharton Esherick and Philadelphia architect George Howe.

The Time is Ripe: Learning the Art of Watchmaking

01 March 2024

Have you ever wondered how the watches in the Taft collection were made? To better understand how watchmakers created the movements (i.e. the moving parts of a watch) housed in these small technological wonders, our associate curator, Ann Glasscock, PhD took an introduction to watchmaking class!

Guanyin: Bodhisattva, Goddess, and Queer Icon

24 October 2023

Wandering through the Taft Museum of Art’s collection galleries, you might spy a miniature ceramic woman balancing in her bare feet on a huge flower. Her serene expression belies vast power. She represents Guanyin, a deity who transformed from male to female and gained a new name over two thousand years of being venerated.

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