Download or read book Museum Mile: Philadelphia's Parkway Museums written by Richard Carreño and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Museum Mile' takes a behind-the-scenes look at the arts and culural treasures that line Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Parkway hosts more than a dozen major cultural institutions, including two, the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, that are without peer. Others like the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and the Rodin Museum and Garden, a PMA subsidiary, have a much-heralded presence in the nation's arts world.