Philadelphia

It's hard to believe but true: Philadelphia is not the largest small town but rather the fifth largest city in the United States! (after New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston).

It is also the largest city in Pennsylvania. Here is another information source for Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania maintains a home page with travel and other information for major regions and cities in the state.

See also:

• Pennsylvania's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
• the Pennsylvania Turnpike
  • the eager traveler will also want to check in with New Jersey Turnpike/Pennsylvania Turnpike Speedtrap Research Project
• the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Sources for Philadelphia specifically (and its very immediate region) follow:

• Philadelphia's city government home page, one part of which is PhILS, the Philadelphia Information Locator Source

• Traffic.com's Philadelphia page

• Here are several introductory "virtual tours" of Philadelphia:

  1. Seven Tours Through Historic Philadelphia
     seven different tours through historic philadelphia: historic district, fairmount park, rittenhouse, society hill, etc. (put together by the Independence Hall Association)

  2. Historic Philadelphia
     a virtual tour of the historic district, sponsored by the same folks as the site above, but with a different order and interface, and more links
     See also Early Philadelphia, 1682-1800 (Matt Ainslie)

  3. UCNet.com serves University City, the part of Philadelphia in which the University of Pennsylvania is located

  4. About.com's Philadelphia

  5. Libertynet's Philadelphia, with specific links to Philadelphia Arts

• SEPTA

• Newspapers:

  1. The Philadelphia Inquirer

  2. City Paper

  3. Philadelphia Weekly

• Restaurants:

  Philadelphia restaurants (from Zagat's); and another Philadelphia restaurant site

• Art museums:

  1. Philadelphia Museum of Art

  2. Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

  3. Arthur Ross Gallery in the Fisher Fine Arts Library building (designed by Frank Furness) at the University of Pennsylvania . . .

  4. . . . and, elsewhere in the same building, Penn's Architectural Archives

  5. Institute of Contemporary Art, at the University of Pennsylvania

  6. The Barnes Foundation (Merion, Pennsylvania)

  7. Brandywine River Museum (Chadds Ford, PA)

  8. James A. Michener Art Museum (Doylestown, PA)

  9. And, at a bit of a distance,

     • Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, New Jersey)

     • Princeton University Art Museum

• Theaters:

  1. a general guide to Philadelphia theaters

  2. . . . about which, one might also want to see sites for some individual theaters, e.g.:

     • the Annenberg Center

     • Arden Theater

     • Forrest Theater

     • InterAct Theater Company

     • McCarter Theater (in Princeton, New Jersey)

     • Merriam Theater

     • People's Light and Theater Company (Malvern, PA)

     • The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival

     • Philadelphia Theater Company

     • Prince Music Theater

     • Walnut Street Theater

     • Wilma Theater

• Film:

  1. Philly.com movie listings is a general guide to movies; see also, e.g.,

  2. Philadelphia's Ritz theaters

  3. Doylestown's County Theater

  4. Ambler's Ambler Theater

  5. Bryn Mawr's Bryn Mawr Film Institute

  6. Bala Cynwyd's Bala Theater

  7. Jenkintown's Hiway Theater

  8. and, for movie rentals, TLA (locations in Philadelphia and its suburbs)

  9. International House has an active film program, among its other attractions

• Music:

  1. Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

  2. The Philadelphia Orchestra

  3. Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

  4. Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

  5. Curtis Institute of Music

  6. Piffaro: The Renaissance Band

  7. the Bach Festival of Philadelphia

  8. Philadelphia Music Homepage

• Public radio:

  1. WHYY (90.9), Philadelphia's witty riposte to public radio, and t.v. channel 12, doing similarly wonderful work for public television

  2. WRTI (90.1), Temple University's schizoid public radio station

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  Various other local attractions

  
  
  
  
  Philadelphia Zoo

• Academy of Natural Sciences

• The American Philosophical Society

• the Athenaeum of Philadelphia

• Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies

• Bartram's Garden

• Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site

• Franklin Institute (and associated museums)

• Independence National Historical Park

• The Library Company of Philadelphia

• Morris Arboretum (University of Pennsylvania)

• The Mütter Museum, located at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (which also mounts an "official" site for The Mütter Museum)

• National Museum of American Jewish History

• Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

• World Affairs Council of Philadelphia
  

• Philly Fun Guide

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  Various additional attractions,
  specialized or less local

  
  

• Pennsylvania Used Book Stores

• Across the river lies New Jersey. Events there may be found at JerseyArts

• The Arden Press of Philadelphia publishes on the Internet free, full-text electronic versions of rare books about the history of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Delaware Museum of Natural History (Wilmington, Delaware)

• Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, Delaware)