Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1805, it is the longest continuously operating art museum and art school in the United States.Photo: Csrsanch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: School
- Description: museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “PAFA”, “Pennsylvania Academy of Art”, “Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art”, and “Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Living Word Community Church and Suburban Station.
Suburban Station
Railway station
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Suburban Station is an Art Deco office building and underground commuter rail station in Penn Center in Philadelphia. Its official SEPTA address is 16th Street and JFK Boulevard. Suburban Station is situated 660 feet south of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Logan Square and Center City East.
Logan Square
Neighborhood
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Logan Square is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Bounded by Market Street on the south, Spring Garden Street on the north, Broad Street on the east, and the Schuylkill River on the west, it occupies the northwestern quadrant of Center City.
Center City East
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City Center East is the most dense section of Philadelphia, home to City Hall, the Convention Center, Chinatown, Washington Square West, and Gayborhood.
Center City West
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Philadelphia's Center City West is the downtown area west of City Hall. It contains downtown's upscale shopping district, the financial district, and the museum district along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, culminating in the Philadelphia Art Museum and Fairmount Park.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أكاديمية بنسلفانيا للفنون الجميلة”
- Armenian: “Պենսիլվանիայի գեղարվեստի ակադեմիա”
- Asturian: “Academia de Belles Artes de Pennsylvania”
- Asturian: “PAFA”
- Asturian: “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
- Belarusian: “Пенсільванская акадэмія прыгожых мастацтваў”
- Belarusian: “Пэнсыльванская акадэмія прыгожых мастацтваў”
- Catalan: “Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Pennsilvània”
- Catalan: “PAFA”
- Catalan: “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
- Chinese: “宾夕法尼亚美术学院”
- Chinese: “費城美術學院”
- Chinese: “賓夕法尼亞美術學院”
- Czech: “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
- Dutch: “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
- Esperanto: “Pensilvania Akademio de Belarto”
- Esperanto: “Pensilvania Akademio de Belartoj”
- Finnish: “Pennsylvanian kuvataideakatemia”
- French: “Beaux-arts de pennsylvanie”
- French: “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
- Georgian: “პენსილვანიის სახვითი ხელოვნების აკადემია”
- German: “PAFA”
- German: “Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts”
- German: “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
- Greek: “Ακαδημία των Καλών Τεχνών της Πενσυλβάνια”
- Hebrew: “האקדמיה לאמנויות היפות בפנסילבניה”
- Italian: “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
- Japanese: “ペンシルヴェニア美術アカデミー”
- Japanese: “ペンシルバニア美術アカデミー”
- Japanese: “ペンシルベニア美術アカデミー”
- Korean: “펜실베이니아 미술아카데미”
- Persian: “آکادمی هنرهای زیبای پنسیلوانیا”
- Polish: “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
- Portuguese: “Academia de Belas-Artes da Pensilvânia”
- Russian: “Академия изящных искусств Пенсильвании”
- Russian: “Пенсильванская академия изящных искусств”
- Slovenian: “PAFA”
- Slovenian: “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
- Slovenian: “Pensilvanijska akademija lepih umetnosti”
- Spanish: “Academia de Bellas Artes de Pensilvania”
- Spanish: “PAFA”
- Spanish: “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
- Swedish: “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
- Turkish: “Pennsylvania Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi”
- Turkish: “Pensilvanya Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi”
- Ukrainian: “Пенсільванська академія витончених мистецтв”
- Ukrainian: “Пенсільванська академія образотворчих мистецтв”
- Vietnamese: “Học viện Mỹ thuật Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Academi’r Celfyddydau Cain, Pennsylvania”
- Western Armenian: “փենսիլուանիոյ գեղարուեստի ակադեմիա”
- “Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts”
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