Charter a Mini Bus Rental in NYC and Visit Pennsylvania's Art Museums

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A state of close to 13 million people, Pennsylvania offers visitors a variety of attractions that you can enjoy when you visit on a mini bus rental in NYC.

 

 

The good news is that the state is just a stone's throw away from the Big Apple. For instance, getting to Philadelphia takes around two hours on a mini bus rental in NYC. While visiting, do check out the state's many art museums and get a little culture into your travel.

 

Pennsylvania has a lot of visual arts galleries and museums that even the most hardcore art lovers would love. Go First, go to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a United States National Register of Historic Places and a United States National Historic Landmark. This is the first art museum and school in the country, having been founded in 1805 by Charles Willson Peale. The museum has notable collections of 19th-century and 20th-century American paintings, works on paper, sculptures. It is also a prime attraction for those who are studying American art history, art training and museums. The museum exhibits the works of premiere American artists including their distinguished faculty and alumna at its school. Modern and contemporary artworks dominate the permanent collection, but historical art works are also available. In fact, the collections here are arranged both chronologically and thematically, so you could start viewing American artworks that start in the 1700s right down to the present.

 

The school, on the other hand, offers a four-year Certificate Program. For more than eight decades, the academy has been giving out Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, and Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Graduate Studies degrees to qualified students.

 

A mini bus rental in NYC can take you to:

 

The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts is located inside two historic mansions in New Castle, PA. The institute also features artist studios, as well as a venue for exhibits, educational programs, classes and concerts. The institute has close to five acres of space. The Greek revival May Emma Hoyt House has a majority of the institute's programming as well as the Shenango China Collection. Then you have the Alex Crawford Hoyt House, a Tudor revival mansion that is preserved as a period house and features an amazing array of vintage toys.

 

Educational art and horticultural institution Barnes Foundation is located in Merion. Founded by Albert Barnes in the 1920s, the foundation currently holds at least 2,500 objects. It has 800 paintings, including works by Modernist and Impressionist masters, European art and American art. It also has ancient artworks. All in all its holdings are worth around $25 billion. The collection holds more than 180 paintings done by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, more than five dozen by Paul Cézanne, and a little less than five dozen artworks by Henri Matisse. There are 46 Picassos, and close to two dozen artworks by Chaim Soutine. It also has multiple holdings of artworks done by Henri Rousseau, Amedeo Modigliani, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat. Other European and American masters that you could find here are Giorgio de Chirico, Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, El Greco, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Francisco Goya, Claude Monet, Jean Hugo, William Glackens, Maurice Utrillo, Jules Pascin, Maurice Prendergast, and Charles Demuth. Then you should also check out the Ancient Egyptian, Roman and Greek art, as well as the African artworks and the decorative arts, metalwork and furniture. You could also find the Merion Arboretum with 12 acres of space filled with plants for educational purposes.

 

Pittsburgh has the Andy Warhol Museum, which is the biggest museum in the United States that is dedicated to exclusively one artists. The museum's permanent collection has the artworks and archives of Andy Warhol. There are four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and this museum is one of them. It occupies more than 88,000 square feet of space and has seven floors and 17 galleries. It holds 900 paintings, 2,000 works on paper and more than 1,000 published prints, as well as more than 4,300 films and videotapes, and 4,000 photographs. The museum gets more than 100,000 visitors a year.

 

Located in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood, the Carnegie Museum of Art has an extensive collection of artworks dating back to the 16th century. Founded by Andrew Carnegie, the museum is notable for its collection of outstanding contemporary art. Some of the galleries here include:

 

• Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries: Exhibit at least 500 objects of European and American decorative arts from the 18th century to the modern times.
• Hall of Architecture: Where you could find architectural casts of outstanding works, and features what is considered to be one of the biggest architectural casts made, among close to 140 others.  This is biggest collection of plaster casts of architectural masterpieces in the country.
• Hall of Sculpture: Closely resembles the inner sanctuary of the Parthenon, and is where some of the works from the permanent collections are exhibited.  
• Heinz Architectural Center: Where you could find, study and admire architectural models and drawings.
• Scaife Galleries: Exhibits American and European art since the 1800s.  It also has classical, Egyptian art, African art.

 

Two other galleries here are the Works on Paper Gallery and Forum Gallery.

 

You can get on a mini bus rental in NYC and head out to the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, a community arts campus that holds modern art exhibitions and offers arts education programs. Artists can come here and create, support and learn more about their crafts. The arts center exhibits the work of known and up-and-coming artists from all over the region. The center also has these art house theaters: the Regent Square, the Melwood Screening Room, and the Harris.

 

The Gallery at Penn College has temporary exhibits that features area and regional artists that usually includes gallery talks and artist receptions. Meanwhile, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg focuses on American art, especially southwestern Pennsylvania artworks. Some of the artists that are featured in the museum's permanent collection includes William Merritt Chase, George Luks, John Singleton Copley, Mary Cassatt, Robert Henri, Colin Campbell Cooper, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Stuart Davis, Winslow Homer, William Harnett, Paul Manship, and Gilbert Stuart.

 

You should also check out the Brandywine River Museum, a regional art center in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Located near the Brandywine Creek, the museum highlights the art of Andrew Wyeth and his family. Wyeth was an American realist painter, while his father was a children's classics illustrator and his son also a realist painter. Housed in an old mill, it features several American illustrations, landscape painting and still life paintings by such artists as Jasper Francis Cropsey, Howard Pyle, Peter Hurd, Jessie Willcox Smith, Maxfield Parrish, Harvey Dunn, and William Trost Richards. A visit to the museum would also make it convenient for you to check out two National Historic Landmarks nearby: the Kuerner Farm and the N.C. Wyeth House. The museum can give you a tour of these facilities.

 

You can also take a mini bus rental in NYC and go to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has the Frick Art & Historical Center, a cluster of historical buildings and museums including Clayton, the Frick family's house in the 19th century. The museum allows you to see how Henry Clay Frick lived during that time. Frick was an art collector and industrialist and the 5.5 acre complex includes the Frick Art Museum, the Frick mansion, the children's playhouse, the Car and Carriage Museum, and the Greenhouse. More than 100,000 people visit the museum complex every year. The Frick Art Museum has a collection that includes a large number of works on paper done by Jean-François Millet, nineteenth-century paintings from Europe, Renaissance bronzes and paintings. Some of artists featured here include Anton Mauve, Francesco di Vannuccio, Jan van Os, Bernardo Daddi, Giovanni di Paolo, Lippo Memmi, Matteo Di Giovanni, Jean Bellegambe, Francesco Melzi, Apollonio Di Giovanni, Jean-Louis de Marne, Carle Van Loo, Jan Steen, Jules Cazin, Peter Paul Rubens, Arthur Devis, Jean-François Raffaëlli, and Maurice Quentin de la Tour. The Car and Carriage Museum, on the other hand, has several automobiles on display, including an 1898 Panhard et Levassor Tonneau, 1911 Penn 30 Touring Car, 1903 Baker Electric, 1914 Ford Model T Touring Car, 1906 Outing Wagon, 1940 American Bantam Convertible Coupe, 1912 Daimler Landaulet, 1909 Bailey Electric Phaeton, 1881 Brougham, 1909 Keystone Sixty-Six Roadster, 1924 Auto Red Bug Flyer, 1931 Lincoln Model K Sport Phaeton, 1917 Standard Model E Touring Car, and an 1914 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost Touring Car.

 

Bethlehem, PA has the only decorative arts museum in the entire state, the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts. You can learn about the city's past via their decorative art exhibits that include landscapes, portraits, clothing, furniture, silver, glass, and china. The museum is housed inside three interconnected historic homes that was built in the middle part of the 1800s.

 

The Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley was founded in the 1930s and now has more than 13,000 artworks and more than 16,000 titles and more than three dozen current periodicals in its holdings. The holdings include European art (Game Stall at Market, Saint Jerome Penitent, Portrait of Henrica Ploost van Amstel, and Central Panel of an Altarpiece Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine), American art (Ann Penn Allen, Niagara Falls, and Floriform Vase), textiles, and prints and drawings (Diogenes after Parmigiano, and Il Perdono - Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi.)

 

Then for a truly one of a kind museum experience, go to Arlington and check out the Museum of Mourning Art. Here you can find artworks that deal with loss and death. The museum is modeled to look like George Washington's Mount Vernon home, precisely because his death greatly influenced the representation of death and dying in the arts. Different motifs adorn the museum, including lambs, wreaths and angels. It also features a cemetery gun that helped chase away intruders at graves, funerary clothing, horse-drawn hearses, and other death related artifacts.

 

The Rodin Museum has the biggest collection of Auguste Rodin's works in the United States. It was first opened in the 1920s and was renovated recently. some of the most famous works here includes The Thinker built in the 1880s and is found at the courtyard of the museum. Other works include The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, Eternal Springtime, and The Age of Bronze.

 

University Museum at Indiana University of Pennsylvania gives you the chance to see the artworks and learn more about the history of the region. It has several permanent exhibits at the John Sutton Hall, as well as smaller exhibits that are held at different parts of the university campus, including the IUP Performing Arts Center, Sprowls Hall, Cogswell Hall, Clark Hall, and Sutton Hall.

 

Erie Art Museum has more than 8,000 objects that include rare artifacts such as Tibetan paintings, bronzes from India, baskets and other forms of art. On top of its permanent exhibits, the museum also hosts around 20 visiting exhibits every year. There are several historic buildings in the complex, including the Old Custom House, the Cashiers House, the Bonnell Block, the Holstein Gallery and Frame Shop, and the Old Pumper House. Erie Art Museum was a National Medal for Museum and Library Service awardee in 2011.

 

Antoine Dutot Museum & Gallery is a local history museum and art gallery that is located inside a former schoolhouse that was built in the 1850s. It features several exhibits created by local and regional artists, and the museum also hosts several events throughout the year. This is located in Delaware Water Gap.

 

The Lancaster Museum of Art gives its visitors the best art that is available in the area. It was founded by a consortium of community leaders and artists in the 1960s. It has 4,000 sq. ft. of space reserved for exhibits of works done by national, regional and international artists. They also hold artist lectures, educational workshops and panel discussions.

 

The August Wilson Center for African American Culture is located in Pittsburgh. The center gives you visual arts and performing arts programming that highlights the contributions of the African Americans in the area. The center has galleries, a theater, classrooms, a cafe, and other spaces. The museum opened only in 2009.

 

A mini bus rental in NYC can take you to several cities or help you explore a city or two. So be sure to invite your family and friends for a fun time touring the art museums in the Independence State.

 

Some great art museums you should visit include:

 

The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art is in Scranton, Pennsylvania and was founded in the early 1900s by medical doctor Isaiah Fawkes Everhart. The ornithological exhibits in the collection are from the doctor's personal collection. The museum's collection also has visual art pieces, fossils, ethnological artifacts, and American folk art. It has more than 20,000 objects in its collection

 

The La Salle University Art Museum in Philadelphia has six galleries that feature collections of American and European art dating back to the Renaissance. You would also enjoy the Special collections that they have, which includes Ancient Greek ceramics, rare bibles, Japanese prints, African carvings, Indian miniatures, and Pre-Columbian pottery.

 

The Mattress Factory Art Museum is a contemporary art museum in Pittsburgh. This is a truly one of a kind museum and around 75,000 people visit it every year. It has 17 permanent installations done by various artists including William Anastasi, Rolf Julius, Yayoi Kusama, and James Turrell, among others.

 

The Wharton Esherick Museum is housed inside the former studio of the artist and craftsman who died in 1970. Located in Malvern, the complex has 5.5 acres of space and consists of five structures. You can arrange for a group tour here.

 

Custom Coach and Limo has some more recommendations for you, so be sure to stay tuned to this space if you want to discover more visual arts attractions in Pennsylvania that you can visit.

 

You also have several art trails.

 

• The Pennsylvania Art Experience takes you down Lincoln Highway and check out the many art forms available in the state, including furniture, quilts and tile art.
• The Pennsylvania Glass Trail introduces you to an assortment of well-known, established and upcoming glass artists, and the opportunity to see their works.
• The Art Thrives on 45 takes you through the Purple Heart Highway where you can visit different counties to see the unique shopping and arts attractions along the way.
• The Handmade Along the Highway trail takes you to the different galleries and museums, educates you about the state’s history and introduces you to our artisans and artists.
• The heART of the Alleghenies Artisan Trail gives you the chance to view unique, personalized and handmade artworks.
• The By-way of the Arts is a 190 mile tour that allows you to visit artist and crafter studios and enclaves scattered all over the state.
• The Pennsylvania Route 6 Artisan Trail is for those who wants to learn more about the art of Northern Pennsylvania.

 

Other visual arts related attractions in Pennsylvania include:

 

• The Mural Mile in Philadelphia.
• The Center for Architecture, which has exhibits, lectures and workshops that discusses urban planning, architecture, and design.
• Various architectural gems in many of the state's buildings, including the Adult Learning Lab at Bryn Mawr, Baltimore-Ohio Railroad Depots, Allegheny County Courthouse, Fallingwater, Erdman Hall Dormitories, Lang Music Building, Fonthill, Frank House, Putterman House, Norman Fisher House, Second Bank of the United States, Tredyffrin Public Library, and Richards Medical Center.

 

So call Custom Coach and Limo at +1 (866) 952-8737 and reserve your mini bus rental in NYC.