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The
Philadelphia
Museum
of
Art
administers
several
annexes
including
the Rodin
Museum,
also
located
on
the
Benjamin
Franklin
Parkway,
and
the Ruth
and
Raymond
G.
Perelman
Building,
which
is
located
across
the
street
just
north
of
the
main
building.[7] The
Perelman
Building,
which
opened
in
2007,[8] houses
more
than
150,000
prints,
drawings
and
photographs,
along
with
30,000
costume
and
textile
pieces,
and
over
1,000
modern
and
contemporary
design
objects
including
furniture,
ceramics
and
glasswork.[9] The
museum
also
administers
the
historic
colonial-era
houses
of Mount
Pleasant and Cedar
Grove,
both
located
in Fairmount
Park.[10] The
main
museum
building
and
its
annexes
are
owned
by
the
City
of
Philadelphia
and
administered
by
a
registered
nonprofit
corporation.[7]
Several
special
exhibitions
are
held
in
the
museum
every
year,
including
touring
exhibitions
arranged
with
other
museums
in
the
United
States
and
abroad.[11][12] The
attendance
figure
for
the
museum
was
793,000
in
2017,
which
ranks
it
among
the
top
one
hundred most-visited
art
museums in
the
world.[4] The
museum
is
also
one
of
the largest
art
museums in
the
world
based
on
gallery
space.
The
museum
houses
more
than
240,000
objects,[3] highlighting
the
creative
achievements
of
the Western
world and
those
of
Asia,
in
more
than
200
galleries
spanning
2,000
years.[33] The
museum's
collections
of Egyptian and Roman
art,
as
well
as
many
of
its Pre-Columbian works,
were
relocated
to
the Penn
Museum after
an
exchange
agreement
was
made
whereby
the
museum
houses
the
university's
collection
of Chinese
porcelain.[34]
Highlights
of
the
Asian
collections
include
paintings
and
sculpture
from
China,
Japan,
and
India;
furniture
and
decorative
arts,
including
major
collections
of
Chinese,
Japanese,
and
Korean
ceramics;
a
large
and
distinguished
group
of
Persian
and
Turkish
carpets;
and
rare
and
authentic
architectural
assemblages
such
as
a
Chinese
palace
hall,
a
Japanese
teahouse,
and
a
16th-century
Indian
temple
hall.[3]
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