Parkway at 100: Dreams into Reality

The Association for Public Art (aPA) celebrates the 100th anniversary of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway (1918-2018) with this commemorative Museum Without Walls: AUDIO program. Learn about the development of this vast and historic thoroughfare known for the museums and institutions that line the mile-long stretch. | associationforpublicart.org/parkway100
Voices: PENNY BALKIN BACH is the former Executive Director & Chief Curator of the Association for Public Art and the author of many books and articles about Philadelphia’s public art. DAVID BROWNLEE is an architecture historian and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of "Building the City Beautiful: The Benjamin Franklin Parkway and the Philadelphia Museum of Art."
Segment Producer: Alex Lewis
Videos: We Film Philly
Photos: Gregory Benson, Jeff Fusco, Caitlin Martin, Kasey McCarver, Alec Rogers, Parkway Museum District
Museum Without Walls: AUDIO is a program of the Association for Public Art and presented in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. The program has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the William Penn Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. associationforpublicart.org/mww

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Love the art that it possesses. But I wish it resembled an actual park with more trees, more play area and more spaces to linger and that it was less akin to a boulevard. The large number of cars that transit through discourages people's from trolling though the park at ease. I imagine a park that envelops in nature's quiet bliss and inspires through the company of great works of art. It has the potential to be so much more. Wish that someday, we could make it so.