PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced today that it will reopen to the public on Sunday, September 6, 2020, following a nearly six-month closure that was necessitated by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rodin Museum will also be reopening on this date.

Admission to the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be Pay-What-You-Wish on opening day, which will follow three Members-Only days (September 3, 4, 5).

Both museums will operate with reduced hours (see below) and visitors are strongly advised to reserve admission tickets in advance online, beginning August 17.

These dates are subject to change in the event of any government directives or advisories related to the pandemic.




In the Galleries
With nearly all of the 200-plus galleries open in the main building, ranging from the arts of Asia to the European, American, and contemporary collections, visitors are encouraged to revisit favorite works from the collection and discover new treasured favorites, from the Japanese Ceremonial Teahouse to the recently-installed All about the Benjamins Century Vase by Philadelphia artist Roberto Lugo. Mary Cassatt’s Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge, Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, and Paul Cézanne’s The Large Bathers are among the highlights in the galleries of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works that had only recently been reinstalled before the March closure.

Temporary exhibitions have been extended, including Fault Lines: Contemporary Abstraction by Artists from South Asia (though October 25); A Collector’s Vision: Highlights from Dietrich American Collection (through November 15); Horace Pippin: From War to Peace (through December); and Marisa Merz (through July 2021).

In the American galleries, beginning mid-September, Thomas Eakins’s The Gross Clinic will return from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to be reunited with the artist’s other famous medical painting, The Agnew Clinic, together bearing testimony to the triumphs of medicine in 19th-century Philadelphia. In recognition of the essential healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition Art of Care (September 16, 2020–January 3, 2021) will examine the ways in which artists have portrayed medical care over the last century.

Several new permanent-collection installations in the modern and contemporary art galleries will highlight works by women, Black artists, and other artists of color. Expanded Painting from the 1960s and 70s will feature works by Sam Gilliam, Dorothea Rockburne, Alma Thomas, and Jack Whitten, offering a fresh view of the history of nuanced and inclusive view of this period in the history of abstract painting (early October). Ghosts and Fragments presents works by Nick Cave, Lonnie Holley, Glenn Ligon, and Susan Rothenberg that conceptually speak to the haunting absences and fractured presences of marginalized bodies (early October). Painting Identity will explore how a diverse selection of 20th-century American artists used portraiture and figure painting to explore the characters of their subjects and reflect upon broader social issues, from Portrait of James Baldwin by Beauford Delaney and Taboo by Jacob Lawrence to Last Sickness by Alice Neel and Miss T by Barkley Hendricks (December).

Please note that until further notice the Dorrance Special Exhibition Galleries will be closed, along with two very small galleries in which social distancing and other safety precautions would not be possible: gallery 361 (room from Het Scheepje, or The Little Ship) and gallery 283 (Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés).

At the Rodin Museum, Rethinking the Modern Monument has been extended until January 2022.