The Centennial Exhibition, the Philadelphia museum of art, and Hector Tyndale. From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: Fischer, Felice | COPYRIGHT 2002 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

May 10, 2002, marks the 125th anniversary of the opening of what is now the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pl. I). Originally called the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, it was an offspring of the Centennial Exhibition, which opened in Philadelphia on May 10, 1876. Presiding at the opening ceremony were President Ulysses S. Grant, the cabinet, the Supreme Court, both houses of Congress, and more than 100,000 spectators, of whom 76,172 had paid a five dollar admission f...