The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the cultural heart of a great city. OPEN Thurs - Mon World-class collections, exhibitions, programs...and some well-known steps. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe, seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collections in particular, and the visual arts in general, to an increasing and increasingly diverse audience as a source of delight, illumination and lifelong learning.