This is Memorial Hall which is now home to the Please Touch Me Museum. I really like the look of the building, but have no interest in the museum.(It looks like a great place for kids though) It's located on the other side of the Schuylkill River ("SKOO-kull") from where I took the other Fairmont Park pictures. This is a really great park.Last week my world was New York this week it's Philadelphia, it's nice being in the middle.
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How cool. What a great way to educate kids. Excellent and the photos are awesome as usual :) Very good looking museum. :)
ReplyDeleteI like photographing statues and monuments, so appreciate greatly how you do this. Didn't know of this museum, following the link I understand that it must be great for kids. When my son was younger we saw something alike at La Villette, in Paris. But it was time ago. You live in a great zone for museums!
ReplyDeleteWell the building is very impressive! I bet it is a great place to take kids.
ReplyDeleteGreat photographs of a beautiful place. I love the idea of a please touch me museum.
ReplyDeleteInteresting building! And intriguing name for a museum:)
ReplyDeleteThis grand building reminds me of XIXth century buildings over here. They are usually museums too. I really like this one! ;-)
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ReplyDeleteHi James, I really love your style of photography. The details and the depth are precise and beautiful! Great composition!
It is an awesome building. The photos are great! I can't wait until fall so we can really explore Fairmount Park!
ReplyDeleteCheck out Rebekkah's post to see what goes on in side.... Pleas Touch Museum
That is a very pretty building and I would love to explore the museum! Any museum that invites you to touch the displays sounds like a fun place to me!
ReplyDeleteIt is an interesting looking building. But I'd definately want to go inside and touch everything I could. Guess that's just the kid in me.
ReplyDeleteWonderful building, great looking statues.
ReplyDeletebeautiful building. i bet it has lots of good thing to touch inside :)
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Adorable idea and your first shot is fabulous!I would like to visit this museum!The sculptures are amazing.
ReplyDeleteCould you touch it?I think it was not allowed!!! :)
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That first picture with the post title were perfect together!
ReplyDeleteIt is a very interesting building. It would be fun to visit inside with kids.
ReplyDeleteThat horse does not want to be touched!
ReplyDeleteHi James,
ReplyDeleteLove the Please Touch Me Museum, perfect for kids you are right.
Thank you very much for explaining the awards. I wanted to make one with a Greyhound and once I get it done, I don't know how to 'start' it...or award it. From your note it sounds like I put it on my page and then send folks I want to give it to, over to my page to pick it up and post it on theirs...correct?
I appreciate it, I am learning!
Again, very nice post today.
Hi James,
ReplyDeleteThank you for coming over to answer my questions on my blog. Appreciate that. I made the BlogBlast for Peace with Photoshop and will go that way in making it. I will give it a go, thanks so much for helping me out,you are a very nice person! I suppose people put 'stipulations' on the award in order to get it spread around some.
Thanks again, James.
Great building and I bet it is a great place for kids. Nice park, too. You are in a great place for seeing all the cool things on the east coast. Not far from anyplace!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like an incredible place!
ReplyDeletePlease touch me? That's a funny name. I thought what sort of porn do they have inside? Hahah! Just kidding.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a Taj Mahal from the outside.
This is quite a building for sure! I've never heard of this museum, but "Please touch me" is certainly a different approach than most museums which stress "Please don't touch anything."
ReplyDeleteTerrific photos, James, with great interest a color.
If you had not helped with the pronounciation, I'd have continued to twist my tongue indefinitely! Why that I am glad about the museum's name - assuming, of course that the visitors are uniformly well-behaved citizens :)
ReplyDeleteHi James,
ReplyDeleteYou have an award waiting for you at http://spacialpeepol.blogspot.com/2009/08/smiling-greyhound-award.html
:)
Thanks for your help, James.
I do like the building. And the angle of the first pic...it's like he's reaching out to touch the horse.
ReplyDeleteThe building and sculptures are magnificent! I think I would enjoy the museum too — I'm just a big kid after all ;)
ReplyDeleteWonderful building, and pictures of course. I think I would have looked inside too. When children have a great time there it must be a good place to be.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, it is a really beautiful building, so very 'Philadelphia'.
ReplyDeletej'aime beaucoup l'angle de la première photo, superbe
ReplyDeleteMajestic building..
ReplyDeleteInteresting name for the building. Lucky you are able to see both.
ReplyDeleteThere aren't many spots in the USA that remind one of Europe. This is one of those spots! That horse looks POWERFUL!
ReplyDeleteNice photos! PTM also has Grown Up tours based around the history of the building. I learned a lot I never knew about Philadelphia and the World's Fair in 1876 which Memorial Hall was built for. Very beautiful inside!!
ReplyDeletehigh drama!
ReplyDeleteMuseum in Philadelphia, big stairs and you have no interest in the museum. I´m sorry but this is a Rocky-moment!
ReplyDeleteThe first photo corresponds so well with the name of the museum I thought it's just your idea for a title.
ReplyDeletevery beautiful structure. i love it.
ReplyDeleteDo you have grandchildren James? If so, they would LOVE this place! Kaish and Naji couldn't get enough!
ReplyDeleteHi James..me Deen from Golden Sand, Malaysia. Wow..what a great photos. Interesting. I am amateur artist from Kelantan, Malaysia. Hope we can share something and know each other. Greeting from Malaysia.
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