Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia

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Philadelphia's city history museum, the Atwater Kent Museum (also known as the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia) was created in 1938 when Philadelphia Mayor S. Davis Wilson and Frances Wistar, president of the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, convinced inventor and radio pioneer A. Atwater Kent to purchase the historic Franklin Institute building and create a history museum for the City of Philadelphia.

The museum building was designed by notable architect John Haviland and built 1824–26 for the Franklin Institute, founded in 1823 by Samuel Vaughn Merrick. The Atwater Kent Museum now houses more than 80,000 objects related to Philadelphia City History including an estimated 10,000 artifacts from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania art and artifact collection.

Notable facts

The Museum houses a collection of 321 The Saturday Evening Post covers illustrated by Norman Rockwell and published in Philadelphia by the Curtis Publishing company.
The Museum's main gallery features the world's largest map of Philadelphia.
The historic building's design is loosely based on the design of the Greek monument of Thrasyllus.

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