Philadelphia Pennsylvania Links

  • Annual fairs and events:
    • The Mummers Parade, held New Year's Day on Broad Street
    • The Greek Picnic, a reunion and celebration of African-American college fraternities
    • The Wing Bowl, a chicken wing eating competition
    • Philadelphia Flower Show, the premier horticultural show in the U.S., held in February.
    • Philadelphia Fringe Festival
    • Philadelphia Folk Festival
    • Philadelphia Film Festival
    • Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
    • Philadelphia Auto Show
    • Unity Day
    • OutFest/PrideFest
    • The Philadelphia Antiques Show, generally regarded as the best Americana antiques show in the nation, held in early April.
  • Museums, art collections, and sites of interest:
    • 30th Street Station
    • Academy of Natural Sciences
      Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum
      Atwater-Kent Municipal Museum
      Awbury Arboretum
      Barnes Foundation
      Betsy Ross House
      Boathouse Row
      Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul
      Centennial Arboretum
      Clark Park in West Philadelphia features the only known life-sized statue of Charles Dickens in the world.
      Curtis Hall Arboretum in Wyncote, Pennsylvania
      Eastern State Penitentiary
      Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
      Elfreth's Alley
      Fairmount Park
      Fairmount Water Works and its interpretive center
      Fort Mifflin
      Franklin Institute
      Gazela Primero Philadelphia's historic Tall Ship.
      Gloria Dei National Historic Site, built in 1700, is the oldest church in the state.
      Independence Seaport Museum[3]
      Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, one of America's "Big Five" orchestras and regarded as one of the best symphonic orchestras in the world.
      Liberty Bell & Independence Hall
      LOVE Park
      Mummers Museum
      Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (museum of medical and pathological oddities and curiosities)
      National Constitution Center
      New Alhambra Sports and Entertainment Center (formerly ECW Arena)
      One Liberty Place
      Penn's Landing
      Philadelphia City Hall
      Philadelphia Doll Musuem
      Italian market
      Philadelphia Museum of Art houses outstanding collections of European and Asian art.
      Philadelphia Zoo
      Please Touch Museum
      Reading Terminal Market
      Rittenhouse Square
      Rodin Museum (largest collection of Auguste Rodin's works outside France)
      Rosenbach Museum & Library
      SEPTA Museum
      South Street
      Toynbee tiles
      University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
      Wagner Free Institute of Science
      Walnut Street Theatre, the oldest operating theatre in America
      Wanamaker organ, largest operating pipe organ in the world
  • Colleges and Universities:
    • The Art Institute of Philadelphia
    • Chestnut Hill College
    • Community College of Philadelphia
    • Curtis Institute of Music
    • Drexel University
    • Holy Family University
    • La Salle University
    • Moore College of Art
    • Peirce College
    • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
    • Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
    • Philadelphia University
    • The Restaurant School
    • Saint Joseph's University
    • Temple University
    • Thomas Jefferson University
    • University of the Arts
    • University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
    • University of Pennsylvania
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