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Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

This uwishunu.com video gives a peek inside Philadelphia's Magic Gardens on South Street. The largest example of Philadelphia-born Isaiah Zagar's distint mural art, this space took 14 years to complete. Visitors can sign up for a guided tour of Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, or they can delve even deeper with an...

Tags: Arts & Culture, Public Art

Feel the Love

Feel the Love

To "spread the love" about our Love tourism message and to promote the Philly Overnight® Hotel Package, GPTMC created a fun, slightly edgy promotional video. The video features couples kissing under the iconic Robert Indiana Love statue in Love Park. Take a look, feel the love and share it!...

Tags: GPTMC, Icons, Parks & Gardens, Public Art

Mural Arts Program, “Philadelphia Muses”

Mural Arts Program, “Philadelphia Muses”

Meg Saligman’s “Philadelphia Muses” at 13th and Locust Streets is one of more than 2,800 works commissioned by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, which began in 1984 as a component of the city’s Anti-Graffiti Network....

Credit: Photo by K. Ciappa for GPTMC

Tags: Arts & Culture, Public Art, Tours & Transportation

Irish Memorial

Irish Memorial

The Irish Memorial at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia honors the more than one million people who died in Ireland from 1845 to 1860 and the millions of immigrants who came to the United States to build new lives....

Credit: Photo by R. Kennedy for GPTMC

Tags: Historic Philadelphia, History, Multicultural, Public Art

Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

Philadelphia artist Isaiah Zagar uses ceramic tile, mirrors and found objects to create colorful and unusual mosaic murals, like his fantastical Philadelphia's Magic Gardens on South Street....

Credit: Photo by E. Clark for GPTMC

Tags: Public Art

Love Statue

Love Statue

Robert Indiana’s 1976 Love sculpture has become such an icon that its location, JFK Plaza, is now better known as Love Park....

Credit: Photo by J. Smith for GPTMC

Tags: Icons, Parks & Gardens, Public Art

Love Statue

Love Statue

Robert Indiana’s iconic Love sculpture is located in at JFK Plaza across from City Hall. It was installed in 1976, and its location, JFK Plaza, is now better known as Love Park....

Credit: Photo by J. Smith for GPTMC

Tags: Icons, Parks & Gardens, Public Art

Isaiah Zagar Mural

Isaiah Zagar Mural

Philadelphia artist Isaiah Zagar uses ceramic tile, mirrors and found objects to create colorful and unusual mosaic murals....

Credit: Photo by B. Krist for GPTMC

Tags: Public Art

Rodin Museum

Rodin Museum

Rodin’s “The Thinker” muses at the gateway to the Rodin Museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. One of the city’s museum gems, this elegant structure houses the largest collection of work by Auguste Rodin outside of his native France....

Credit: Photo by M. Stewart for GPTMC

Tags: Arts & Culture, Museums & Attractions, Public Art

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