Atwater Kent Museum
museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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The Atwater Kent Museum is Philadelphia's history museum. It houses the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's collection, which includes over 10,000 objects and 800 paintings. These works feature artists from early American painters like Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and the Peale family. The museum showcases the artistic output of Philadelphia and its surrounding areas, including notable figures like Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth.1
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