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Exhibitions

  • If These Walls Could Talk: An Invitation into the Home & Life of Anthony J. Drexel

    Beginning September 12, 2025

    10:00 AM-4:00 PM

    By appointment. Paul Peck Alumni Center 3142 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

    • Everyone

    This exhibition runs from September 12, 2025 through October 16, 2026. If These Walls Could Talk: An Invitation into the Home and Life of Anthony J. Drexel  is an exhibition highlighting the family home of Anthony J. Drexel at his old 39th and Walnut property in the once Drexel Colony of West Philly. Using actual pieces found in his home,  If These Walls Could Talk  looks to transport its visitors into the heart of the 39th and Walnut residence, allowing them to envision what his home   – and  in tandem Anthony J. Drexel  was like.  

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  • Extending Beyond: A Century of Drexel Legacies

    Beginning October 22, 2025

    10:00 AM-4:00 PM

    Paul Peck Alumni Center 3142 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

    • Everyone
    This exhibition runs October 22, 2025 through October 16, 2026. The Drexel family has made their mark on society since Francis Martin Drexel first picked up a paint brush. This exhibition explores the contributions of the Drexel family from the 1820s to the 1930s, to honor the women and men who dare to build institutions and communities from the ground up.
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  • Drexel [Re]Framed: The Dragon Experience

    Thursday, January 1, 2026

    9:00 AM-5:00 PM

    A.J. Drexel Picture Gallery Main Building, 3rd Floor 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

    • Everyone
    The exhibition runs January 17, 2025 through January 31, 2025, Monday - Friday, 3:30 - 5pm. Drexel [Re]Framed: The Dragon Experience, began as a student assignment in the spring of 2024 for an Arts Administration course called "Exhibitions and Programs." Students developed the theme, selected the objects and created the design and layout of the exhibition now on view in the A.J. Drexel Picture Gallery. 
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